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harryws
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2 years ago
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SQL Server on Azure VM not connecting via on-premises gateway

Hi all,   We've recently migrated our physical server onto an Azure VM which now hosts our server. I have managed to recreate my report in Power BI desktop by connecting to SQL Server.   We have ...
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    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Hi harryws ,

    The IP address of the VM should be used when connecting to SQL Server on an Azure VM, the ___.database.windows.net format is usually used for Azure SQL Database, it's a different service, here SQL Server is on an Azure VM, so I think you should go ahead and use the IP address of the VM.
    The second is that you mentioned that you use the Database credentials in Power BI Desktop, so you should choose Basic as the authentication method in the Power BI service.

    Finally, I think you can check out this official document for a more in-depth study: Tutorial: Connect to on-premises data in SQL Server - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

     

     

     

    Best Regards

    Yilong Zhou

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harryws
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2 years ago

Okay, thanks for clearing that part up. I'm guessing that on Power BI Desktop when importing data I should also log in to the SQL database using .database.windows.net format.

 

I gave this a go but it keeps saying invalid credentials. I can only import the data successfully when using the IP address as the server name...

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AnalyticPulse
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2 years ago

But ip address is dynamic in most of the cases.  Server name and username is different for sql, its not same as windows account