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can't connect to SQL without admin rights?
I had recently done a prompted upgrade and my intution is that this upgrade improperly set a permission somewhere on the install files. I uninstalled power BI and did a fresh install and now sql DB access is working fine. Likely there is a bug in how the porgram is updating vs. a clean install.
Yes the error mesage is unhelpful. Here is the end of the trace after attempting again with one retry.
Here is the trace: http://pastebin.com/a8WpqrQS
I had recently done a prompted upgrade and my intution is that this upgrade improperly set a permission somewhere on the install files. I uninstalled power BI and did a fresh install and now sql DB access is working fine. Likely there is a bug in how the porgram is updating vs. a clean install.
TasAdvocate I
Thanks, I was tearing my hair out (what is left of it) trying to figure the same problem out. The very useful "" error message doesn't help a lot does it. Your Uninstall/Reinstall solution worked perfectly. I had done a download / install of a new version to try and fix the problem too, but that didn't work. Only an uninstall/re-install did. Thanks again.- sdjensen
Solution Sage
It helps deleting all data sources and then close Power BI Desktop and reopen.
