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BenBernanke
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Trying to connect to Fabric Data from SQL endpoint in Excel

Hey all,

 

So Im trying to connect to my Fabric Data in a lakehouse from Excel using the "Connect to SQL Database" and then putting in the connection string of the lakehouse.

 

A few problems:

-When I connect on my personal computer it says "Exceeded Fabric Capacity" but havent ran anything recently this month. Not sure if this is a persmissions issue.

-I set up a virtual network to try and connect on work computer that is behind a VPN. Used the personal data gateway march update but still cannot connect to my lakehouse.

 

When I do try and setup a virtual network data gateway in Fabric I get this error:
Unable to validate the subnet permissions required to join the subnet to the Microsoft Power Platform service. Error details: Request rejected with status 400 and message {"error":{"code":"BadRequestFormat","message":"The ObjectID must provided for groups expansion."}}

Going to guess this is also a permissions problem.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Vogels
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@BenBernanke do you have any additional insights on this issue?

We are facing the same issue and I don't think it firewall, permissions of capacity limit issue.

Because I can connect to the SQL endpoint with Azure Data Studio while connected to the same VPN and home network. 

Also I have this issue both with the trail and paid capacity of which I am the admin so permissions doesn't seem likely to me. 

And I have verified that our capacity has not been fully used. 

Anything you can share would be helpful. 

Fowmy
Super User
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@BenBernanke 

I too tried to connect to an SQL Endpoint of a Lakehouse from Excel and got the same error message. I have a trial subscription and I believe the same with you as well. 

One option is to connect to the Semantic Model if you are fine with that:

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Hey!

 

Thanks for pointing that out. I did try and connect via the semantic PowerBI models but still got nothing. I think because we are behind a VPN we need a VNET Data Gateway but I get that error above when trying to make a VNET Data Gateway in Fabric:
Unable to validate the subnet permissions required to join the subnet to the Microsoft Power Platform service. Error details: Request rejected with status 400 and message {"error":{"code":"BadRequestFormat","message":"The ObjectID must provided for groups expansion."}}

 

Thank you again! Let me know if you know anything about the error.

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