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pejay
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

PowerBI & Athena ODBC connection problem

Hi everyone,

 

we try to connect to AWS Athena from PowerBI via their ODBC driver. We encountered a problem with queries that have a with statement, i.e.

 

 

with a1 as

(
     select * from table1
)
select *
from a1;

We get the error message: We encountered an error while trying to connect. Details: "This native database query isn't currently supported."

 

Queries without with statement work fine, also with queries work with a JDBC driver. I couldn't find any problems while checking logs of the ODBC Athena driver, it looks to me like a problem of PowerBI.

 

Any idea what could causing this and how to solve it? Nesting the queries gets quite ugly.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Best,

Philipp

 

Need Help

3 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    8 years ago

    pejay,

    As you test, it doesn't support CTE query in this case, you would need to remove with statement in the query to connect to your data source.

    Regards,
    Lydia

    • pejay's avatar
      pejay
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      Well, I wanted to know why it doesn't support CTE queries, it seems to be a problem of PowerBI, not Athena ODBC. JFYI: Another workaround is to use Redshift Spectrum.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        8 years ago

        pejay,


        This is by design, you can submit an idea here.

        Regards,
        Lydia