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Sukhada
Regular Visitor

Connection String for MS Access

Hi All,

I am trying to connect to MS Access with gateway. I want to know what should be connection string for connecting MS access from my computer.

Right now i am below String -

Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};DBQ=C:\Users\Access database.accdb

This is trowing error -

Activity ID:56145451-b8f3-4f95-a645-09b8c4dc3f85
Request ID:5be062d2-4e8d-78b4-225f-b1b5b1eb0fea
Cluster URI:https://wabi-us-east2-redirect.analysis.windows.net
Status code:400
Error Code:DM_GWPipeline_Gateway_MashupDataAccessError
Time:Fri Mar 31 2017 10:50:31 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time)
Version:13.0.1700.1649

 

Any Idea?

Thanks in advance.

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@Sukhada

Supposing you're talking about configuring a data source for Access DB in the "manage gateways" option in Power BI Service, as Access DB is a file and when creating a datasource, choose "File" as "Data Source Type" and type the "full path" with the actual file path.

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@Eric_Zhangthanks for your reply but that did not work. It is throwing error " Details: "Invalid connection credentials."Hide details"

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