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WW
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago

Unable to connect Power BI to SQL

Hello all, 

 

I am facing this error for a few days and it's driving me crazy. I just downloaded Power BI Desktop and hope to connect it to my SCCM database. I have disabled my firewall, check my IP portal, remote connection from SQL is enabled.

I am able to login to my SQL, my accout is fine, I am able to connect to the DB from the same connector, just not with Power BI. Is there any settings I might have missed?

 

Error Message(s) as follow, (it seems to change between the variant)

1) Data Source.Error: Microsoft SQL: A network -related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL server is configured to allow remote connections. (Provider: Named Pipes Provider, error 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL server)

2) DataSource.Error:

3) User was not authorized (Prompted at credential popup).

 

Help, anyone! Thanks!

 

Need Help

5 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    10 years ago

    Hi WW,

    Could you please firstly use SQL Server Management Studio to connect to the remote SQL Server instance and check if it is successful? If it also fails, please follow the steps in this blog to troubleshoot this issue.

    In addition, we need to verify that if you use a Windows login or SQL login to connect to SQL Server, and how you specify the settings in the following screenshot.


     


    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

    • WW's avatar
      WW
      Frequent Visitor
      10 years ago

      Hi Lydia,

       

      I am able to successfully connect to the remote SQL Server instance from another server. I have used both Windows and Database login, but error appears on both.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        10 years ago

        Hi WW,

        Please check that if you can successfully connect to SQL Server from other application(such as Excel) which is installed in the same server with Power BI Desktop.

        And use “IP address, port” or “tcp:computername” as server name to connect to SQL Server in Power BI Desktop.


        Thanks,
        Lydia Zhang