Unable to connect Redshift

[Anonymous]

Hello Team,

I am unable to connect to redshift  and getting below error.

ODBC: ERROR [28000] [Microsoft][Amazon Redshift] (10) Error occurred while trying to connect: [SQLState 28000] FATAL: password authentication failed for user "********"

[Lramirez52]

Hi All, I have the same issue and couldn't be resolved with the steps provided:

Details: "ODBC: ERROR [08S01] [Microsoft][Amazon Redshift] (10) Error occurred while trying to connect: [SQLState 08S01] timeout expired
"

[Anonymous]

Hello, Thanks for the information.

I have tried the above solution but it dint work.

The reason is i am trying to connect with IAM Role and there is some issue with it.

Thanks,

Naveen

[v-jianboli-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

It is a known defect with Redshift connector if password contains any of the following special characters:
@
%
}
{
+
;
<space>

As a workaround, remove the above mentioned special characters from the password to make this work.

This issue is addressed in 10.3 HF-012, 10.8 and on wards. It will connect to Redshift if the password contains any of these characters: [ % , { , } ,+ , ; ,<space>].

Note that @ character cannot be used due to limitations in Redshift.

Some exceptions have already been mentioned in the Redshift documentation. Following is the extract from the same:

"It can be any printable ASCII character (ASCII code 33 to 126) except ' (single quotation mark), " (double quotation mark), \, /, @, or space".

For more details, please refer to:

Quotas and limits in Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift 

Best Regards,

Jianbo Li

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[mycwidct]

Hi,

I still get the same error even if the password is just alpha-numeric.