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I have a PowerBI file that used to work fine, but I had to rebuild my machine and now it can't connect to the SQL Azure database it needs to, and I don't understand why. Here are a few datapoints:
But when I attempt to connect to the db in PowerBI, it tells me it couldn't authenticate with the credentials provider. Looking at the diagnostric traces it has a bunch of errors with the comment: "Windows logins are not supported in this version of SQL Server", which seems to imply the problem is that I'm not using the right authentication mode, but I don't see anyway to set the authentication mode explicitly (to force it to use AAD authentication instead).
I ran into this problem once before, but I don't remember what I did that finally fixed it. Any suggestions?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Currently Power BI doesn’t support AAD authentication when connecting to Azure SQL Database, but it is possible to use AAD authentication when using Microsoft ODBC Driver 13. For more detailed steps, please review the following blog.
Regards,
Lydia Zhang
Is there still no solution to connect directly without using ODBC?
Currently Power BI doesn’t support AAD authentication when connecting to Azure SQL Database, but it is possible to use AAD authentication when using Microsoft ODBC Driver 13. For more detailed steps, please review the following blog.
Regards,
Lydia Zhang
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