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Anonymous
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Live Connection Issue With MSBI Server

Hi Everyone !

 

I am New to BI and Facing a Small Isuue.

 

we have a OLAP Cube in our Organisation and we connect it through Excel.

 

it somthing Like

https://......../olap-ssl/msmdpump.dll

 

When i am trying to connect it through Power BI in Live connection mode it is giving me an error of time out or server name is incorrect.

 

However when i am selecting as import mode it gets connected..

 

Please help me in this !!

 

Thanks !!

 

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

For smaller dataset, it's perfectly fine to load data into powerbi and create a model. But if data is huge you can create an SSAS tabular model connect to PowerBI.

 

Which connector are you using? Excel, or SSAS or other?

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Please share more detail information(error messages, screenshots) to help us clarify your scenario.

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin

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