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sunildatalytyx
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The credentials provided for the Snowflake source are invalid.

Hi, 

 

I have published a report which pulls data from snowflake server. I have published this to service and have updated the credentials and setup the scheduled refresh. All worked fine for a long time but since last friday, i keep getting the below error. When i give the credentials again the report gets refreshed perfectly and probably even certain scheduled refresh work fine but all of a sudden again the error pops up. I am assuming this to be a powerbi tenant issue coz i am not facing this issue with any other client or our own ord snwoflake server. Also this is happening to this report alone.  

 

report_name has failed to refresh.
Failure details: The credentials provided for the Snowflake source are invalid. (Source at snowflake_server)

Next refresh for report_name is scheduled for September 23, 2021 12:30 UTC.

 

Screenshots of the refreshes 

 

sunildatalytyx_0-1632394600697.png

Any help will be much appreciated, this is one of the major issues from Clients perspective as they depend on this report a lot. And these issues are kind of reliability issues which is making the client rethink on power bi as their choice of reporting/self service bi tool. 

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AlexandraNB
New Member

Have the same issue refresh is taking too long. I republish and works but in scheduled refresh don't. 

AlexandraNB_0-1732053141513.png

Also went to DAX and seems to be less weight in Capacity than other reports

Anonymous
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Hi 
Did you get a solution for this ??

SuperBIstar
Frequent Visitor

Hi Have you continuted to exprence this issue.  I have exprenced the same thing. 

  • The report is using a service principal account.

pattern of events

  • The report runs for weeks with no log on issues.
  • It will fail 4 times in a row. with the  "The credentials provided for the Snowflake source are invalid." Message
  • I will update the credentials with the exact same credentials that it had before. 
  • The refresh will function as expected.
  • The cycle will repeat.
Degao
New Member

Hello @sunildatalytyx ,

 

Were you able to solve this issue? 

 

I am facing the exactly same error message when trying to implement an incremental refresh do my report's dataset. When running the very first dataset load, Power BI service starts it and I can confirm queries are hitting Snowflake.  Though, all of a sudden the error message pops up and the dataset is now refresh.

 

In addition, I have this same report using the same dataset runnig a full refresh, without the incremental. This is running ok taking about 1 hours to finish.

 

We are trying to implement the incremental load to see if we can reduce refreshing time.

 

Cheers.

sunildatalytyx
Frequent Visitor

Thanks @Anonymous for the response. As i mentioned, all this was configured and the report was working fine for more than a month. Our IT team thinks that this might be token issue. However credentials failing/invalid error only for one report is quite surprising, there are number of reports which are using the same server and credentials

Anonymous
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Hi @sunildatalytyx ,

 

Please kindly refer to:

Connect to Snowflake with Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-enhanced-connectivity-for-snowflake/

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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