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Cannot connect to local MySQL database.
Hi All, I press get data and select MySQL datatabase. I get the following message: "we encountered an error while trying to connect. the connector cannot be used because you are missing one ...
sois Ignore that link and instead download x64 bit MySQL connector and install yourself. I have seen before where doing that has fixed the problem.
if others have this problem try the following install the 8.0.30 version https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/c-odbc/ and the 8.0.32 version https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/c-net/ I have no idear why this works but it does
I am useing Version: 2.116.763.0 64-bit (april 2023) of Power Bi and im on Windows 11
Hope it helps!
Can you please tell me what version of mysql do you use?