Connecting Power BI with an Azure SQL Server Database

[yt1987]

I am not able to connect to the Azure SQL Database to Power BI. Below points has already been checked.

• correct server name
• SSMS installed on the same machine that has Power BI Desktop installed.
• a firewall rule is setup to allow Power BI Desktop to make a connection to Azure SQL.

Below error is reported:

Unable to Connect

We encountered an error while trying to connect

Details: "Microsoft SQL: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - This is usually a temporary error during hostname resolution and means that the local server did not receive a response from an authoritative server.)"

[Anonymous]

@yt1987,

I can successfully connect to Azure SQL database in March update of Power BI Desktop. what version of Power BI Desktop do you use? Are you able to connect to the database in SSMS?

In your scenario, please clear cache in Power BI Desktop, clear permissions for the existing Azure SQL connections in your PBIX file , then check if you can connect to the database.


Regards,

Lydia

[yt1987]

I am trying to connect to Azure SQL database from my Power BI desktop, but I am not able to connect to the dabase. I have already checked into the below points.

• SSMS is installed on the same machine that has Power BI Desktop installed.
• a firewall rule has already been to allow Power BI Desktop to make a connection to Azure SQL.
• correct server name

Below error is reported:

Unable to connect 

We encountered an error while trying to connect

Details: "Microsoft SQL: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - This is usually a temporary error during hostname resolution and means that the local server did not receive a response from an authoritative server.)"