Unable to see "views" when connecting to Snowflake database after March 2025 update

[Starriver]

Dear Community.

After my Power BI Desktop was updated automaticaly to March 2025 version Power BI doesn't show the list of views anymore.

In the Februar 2025 Power BI desktop version you can see (when clicking the icon near PRD_MART_xxx) that the list of views will be shown.

To reproduce this behaviour I change to a terminal server, where the February 2025 version was installed. 

This is the screenshot from February 2025 Version where all worked fine:

Afterwards I installed March 2025 Version (cleared the Power BI chache) and clicked on the same instance as before, but when clicking on the icon it doesn't show any views. 

I talked also to our Database admin. From the Snwoflake logs he sees that Power BI Desktop does only a "show tables", but it doesn't do "show views".

As some Power BI developers in our company have the same issue I assume this bug came in with the March 2025 Release of Power BI Desktop.

[v-pgoloju · Accepted solution]

Hi @Starriver  ,

We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. This information will be helpful for others facing a similar issue.

In the March 2025 version (which most of you will have by now), there is a preview feature: an improved version of the Snowflake connector.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-march-2025-feature-summary/

This connector is supposed to work better with large data volumes and uses an ADBC connection instead of ODBC (see documentation).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/snowflake#new-snowflake-connector-implement...

This "preview feature" was automatically pushed with the last update but, unfortunately, contains a bug. When you try to connect using the new connector and access a Snowflake Server, you will only see the tables—even if you have the correct permissions. Views within all schemas will not be visible!

How can you fix this?
Disable this preview feature and restart Power BI! — See the image below.

Note that you can still access your existing views from Power Query. So, if you already have a working Power Query setup/connections with the Snowflake Server, you can simply duplicate and reuse it. The views are just not visible in the Power BI Desktop UI.

If this information is helpful, please “Accept it as a solution” and give a "Kudos" to assist other community members in resolving similar issues more efficiently.
Thank you.

[v-pgoloju]

Hi @Starriver ,

As of now, Microsoft has not announced a specific date for a fix. To address this issue in the meantime, you can disable the preview feature and restart Power BI Desktop. This should restore the visibility of your Snowflake views. 

Thank you.

Regards,

Prasanna kumar

[elmorekevin]

Hi @v-pgoloju 

I hate to think of myself as special, but I can no longer get Views to show anything, even after disabling the "Use new Snowflake conenctor" option.

The Account View code in the bottom portion worked fine before the latest update, I'm quite certain. Maybe something else is wrong for me?

[elmorekevin]

Glad to find this post. Will this issue be addressed in the next update? Would that be April 2025?

[Starriver]

@elmorekevin @v-pgoloju : I installed Power BI April 2025 update and it seems that they implemented a fix there. Everything works fine now with the new Snowflake connector enabled in the preview features.

[Starriver]

@v-pgoloju : Can you answer the question if this is fixed in the next Power BI Release?

[v-pgoloju · Accepted solution]

Hi @Starriver  ,

We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. This information will be helpful for others facing a similar issue.

In the March 2025 version (which most of you will have by now), there is a preview feature: an improved version of the Snowflake connector.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-march-2025-feature-summary/

This connector is supposed to work better with large data volumes and uses an ADBC connection instead of ODBC (see documentation).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/snowflake#new-snowflake-connector-implement...

This "preview feature" was automatically pushed with the last update but, unfortunately, contains a bug. When you try to connect using the new connector and access a Snowflake Server, you will only see the tables—even if you have the correct permissions. Views within all schemas will not be visible!

How can you fix this?
Disable this preview feature and restart Power BI! — See the image below.

Note that you can still access your existing views from Power Query. So, if you already have a working Power Query setup/connections with the Snowflake Server, you can simply duplicate and reuse it. The views are just not visible in the Power BI Desktop UI.

If this information is helpful, please “Accept it as a solution” and give a "Kudos" to assist other community members in resolving similar issues more efficiently.
Thank you.

[martinabdulghni]

This works 👍

[Starriver · Accepted solution]

Hi @v-pgoloju .

Thanks for your feedback.

I can confirm that disabling the new snowflake connector and restarting Power BI Desktop solved the problem. Here a sceenshot.

[misaacs]

Same issue

[JPalmer-MP]

I'm also having the same issue after the update this morning, presumably rolling back to using the old snowflake connector should work?