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SiWill2017
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9 years ago
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Unable to Connect to SQL Server

 I keep getting the following error message when trying to connect to the companies SQL Server, does anyone have any idea of how to solve this?   "An error happened while reading data from the prov...
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    thaslett
    8 years ago

    Hello,

    I just wanted to add my experience to this. As the Network Manager, I was not comfortable allowing a user to run with admin credentials, so I wanted to find a way around this issue.

     

    I also did have to use Run As Admin to get the connection to work. I discovered that I only needed to do that to establish the connection, though. Once I did, the program could then be run without the Run As Admin option and it would work.

     

    Hope that helps someone.

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kmuchai
New Member
7 years ago

I had the same problem on my installation but only after I had installed the Microsoft Store version of Power BI Desktop. The only way I could get an SQL Database to connect as a data source was to run Power BI as administrator as mentioned by others on this thread. I uninstalled the Microsoft Store version of Power BI and pulled a manual download from the Microsoft Power BI page here :

 

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/  (*Make sure to select the Advanced Download Option to manually pull an installable file)

 

I've had no issues connecting to my databases since and I do not run Power BI Desktop as administrator. Hope this helps.