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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Connection to Azure DB requesting Gateway for Power BI Service

  Apologies if there is a thred answering this already. I could not find one.   We have several reports that connect to an Azure SQL DB without a data gateway (from what I have read, this is perfe...
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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hi Renu

 

Thanks for your response

 

What is the firewall rule for? I have many reports getting data from the same DB without the need for this.

 

Thanks

Sam

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RenuKshirsagar
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5 years ago

Hello Anonymous ,

 

There are server-level firewall that blocks clients from connecting to the Azure SQL DB. Therefore we need to set up a firewall rule in Azure to enable your Client IP communicate with the server. You need to perform the following:

 

1) Open Azure Portal

2) Go to your Azure SQL DB section

3) On the left pane you should find an option for Firewalls and Virtual Network

 

Enter your information and try to refresh the dataset once again.  

 

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Can you provide more details on the reports for which you were able to schedule the refreshes successfully? What is the difference between this one and the others? Is it that you are merging a file's data with this DB?

 

 

 

 

If this reply was informative and helpful, I would appreciate a LIKE on the reply or promote this as a solution if it resolved your error.

 

Thanks,  

Renu KS