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felyoubi
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10 years ago
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Failed to connect to SQL Server

I am getting this error: Details: "Microsoft SQL: The client was unable to establish a connection because of an error during connection initialization process before login. Possible causes include t...
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    felyoubi
    10 years ago

    Special announcement!

    Those who are running their SQL Server Service on a custom port, this is what you need to do to be able to use Power BI:

    Use the SQL Instance Name comma Port as follow: MySQLInstance,2422

    That did it for me.

     

    Regards,

    Fahd

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cafeolai
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Hello all ,

 

I succesfully connect to SQL on desktop using MySQLInstance,2422 format , but whan I publish my pbix, I always get :

'You don't have any gateway installed or configured for the data sources in this dataset. Please install a new personal gateway or configure the data source for an existing data gateway.'

My Gateway name is MySQLInstance,2422 , I tried with MySQLInstance and MySQLInstance:2422 , nothing works .

I also mention that my connection in Power Bi is succesful and  my Gateway shows as 'Connected' ...

 

Thanks for your help  

 

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cafeolai
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

ok , I found what my problem was , I misunderstood when I red the connection name must be the same in the gateway and in Power Bi Desktop.  What must match are the NAME OF THE SERVER and the name of the connection in Desktop.  So I matched ( case sensitive ) the name of the server and my Destop connection and TADA !!  works fine .