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Hi there,
I want to try Power BI Desktop with an On premise Microsoft SQL server
I first got a pipes issue, but then I used the configuration manager to enable pipes and now I get a mysterious
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Unable to Connect
We encountered an error while trying to connect
Details: ""
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which really doesn't say anything!
I've tried setting the "Select which level to apply these settings to:"
to server level as well as database level, I get the same error