I would like to connect my SQL Database on Siteground Hosting to Power BI through the SQL Server connection. However, I need to get the following information which I am not sure where to get:
Siteground Database Credentials in the format: servername:portname
Username & Password (which I have)
And finally, when I inserted the IP Address in item no.1, the error received is as below:
Based on the error above, I figured it could be either:
(i) the IP address I have inserted is wrong; or
(ii) I need to allow remote access to my database on Siteground CPanel:
If item (ii) is the reason for the error, in order to allow PowerBI to access the database, I would need to insert the IP Address of my PowerBI Online which I do not know how to get
I need assistance basically connecting my PowerBI application to my SQL Database created on my hosting account Siteground
Any help is much appreciated.
Your Siteground control panel suggest that the database is MySQL - your are trying to connect to a SQL Server database. They are not the same thing which is probably why it doesn't work.
Try using the MySQL connector for Power BI
First, as Martin Cairney told you, the connector that you are using is wrong - Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL are completely different products, which are not compatible. First change the connector.
The list of IP addresses is something dynamic. There is no guarantee, that Power BI will try to connect to your database from a single IP address only, nor that this IP address will stay the same for a long time. If you go this way, you should maintain this on a weekly basis and monitor for changes. The list of IP addresses can be downloaded from these json files:
Public: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56519
US Gov: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57063
Germany: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57064
China: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57062
They are updated weekly.
Better solution is to move your database to Azure (e.g. Azure MySQL service or MySQL installed in Virtual Machine in Azure) or to migrate to another data source.
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Does anyone know of software that can redirect a TDS client request to an appropriate instance of Sql Server based on the database catalog that the client is attempting to connect to?
In other words, say I have 3 database catalogs (dbcat1, dbcat2, dbcat3) and they're all hosted on the same server (sqlServer). The client code would have connection strings like "server=sqlServer;database=dbcat1" and "server=sqlServer;database=dbcat2", for example.
I would like some sort of (reverse) proxy software that would allow me to move one or more database catalogs to different server instances, but allow the client configuration to remain unchanged. For example, I could put dbcat1 and dbcat3 on sqlA, and put dbcat2 on sqlB, and sqlServer would be the new proxy software. It would pass the connection through to the appropriate SqlServer instance based on its configuration, and the client would have no idea it wasn't talking directly to a SqlServer instance.
Does such a thing exist, or do I get the "joy" of having to write something if I really, really want it? And, yes, I know this is not HA (High Availability) or DR (Disaster Recovery).
SqlServer Failover Clustering does not do this; it's for HA. It redirects at the server instance level (guest clustering)
SqlServer Availability Groups does not do this; it's for DR. You still need to know the AG that hosts the database you want (if you move the dbcat to another AG, you have to update your client config).
Microsoft Proxy Server was replaced by ISA and likely didn't do it anyhow.
Microsoft ISA (Forefront) is just a "dumb" proxy as far as I could tell.
Not sure if this is the correct forum but here goes. Very new to databases so apologies ahead of time if I don't provide enough info.
I have a Microsoft SQL Server Database created with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18, I connected Excel to it to analyse the data and saved that workbook in a shared One Drive folder. Works fine on my computer but the other users cannot refresh the data from the database. I've exhausted all my online search options to figure out how to fix this. I don't know if the database is on a cloud server or if that matters.
Error message is; [Datasource.Error] Microsoft SQL: A network related or instance specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider; SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)
The database does allow for remote connections, I checked that.
I'm comfortable with Excel but I'm new to databases, only worked with Access in the past. Anyone know of the "best" way to have a database we can all (4 users currently) connect to while also connecting Excel to it.
I don't understand the pricing plans for Azure, AWS etc. plus they seem to be way more than what I need.
Doesn't have to be a free option but a set monthly fee with no surprises would work if a server is the issue. It's a relatively small amount of data, currently maybe 100 rows, 24 columns.
The option I last came across was Godaddy web hosting had a database option, don't if this is a good option or not. I signed up for Elephantsql but I haven't figured out how to use that to host the database, creating one in elephant itself seems to use only code rather than the way I created the database in Microsoft.
Thanks in advance for any help, going to go close my 25 google search tabs now.....
Kevin
do you realy need an SQL-Server for dataset auf 100 rows and 24 columns?
I would try do store the date in a shared Excel-File in Onedrive an connect to this.
Best regards
Chris
EDIT
If you want to connect to Private-OneDrive File you should use a WEB-Connector instead of a "File"-Connector.
Your Source should be like this:
=Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents("https://onedrive.live.com/download?resid=AAAXXXXAAA&authkey=BBBXXXXBBB&em=CCCXXXXCCC&app=Excel"), null, true)
You have to replace the AAAXXXXAAAA; BBBXXXXBBB and CCCXXXXCCC with informations from the embedded-link of your XLSX-File:
1) open OneDrive in WEB
2) Select you file and right-click
3) click "embedded"
4) in the right pane you find the embedded-link
5) find there the resid; authkey and em
OneDrive GetEmbeddedLink
(I am a sql noob and I just can not figure this out on my own)
For some time now I have been trying to establish a connection to a SQL database in codename one but to no avail. First I tried connecting to a MariaDB database from one.com. All that's needed for the connection is
Database db = Display.getInstance().openOrCreate("databaseName");
if I am not mistaken, but I am guessing this implies that I have somehow already established a connection to the database. This is not the case however so it creates a new .sql file, right? I can recall that you can connect to a database in the services tab in Netbeans. I chose the MySQL(Connector/ J Driver) which should work with MariaDB, or should it? I entered all my data and i says that it can not establish connection to the database.
the error i get
So I thought I might as well try using localhost. I used XAMPP to host a database and connected in the netbeans services tab.
connected?
Now testing was needed to see if this works. I started the SQL journey with this https://www.codenameone.com/manual/files-storage-networking.html#_sql and integrated the part after "You can probably integrate this code into your app as a debugging tool". I changed database name to "mybase" (it's existance can be confirmed in picture 2). Ran the app, opened the dialog, entered "select ID from customers" and got: java.sql.SQLException: [SQLITE_ERROR] SQL error or missing database (no such table: customers) It does not get past the first call to "executeQuery". The customers table definitely exists so what am I missing to establish connection?
I really need instructions to connect to the localhost database and ideally also to the one hosted by my webhost provider.
Thanks,
Jona
The Database class is to access the SQLite DB on the mobile device. To connect to external databases, you'd have to do something different, such as a ConnectionRequest or Socket I think.
I have a big deal: I have to connect (I just want to read data, not to write) to my customer's IBM AS/400 (aka iSeries, now IBM i) server...
I think I have all parameters needed (given me by the AS/400 programmer), but I can't figure out which driver I have to use, and if I have all software needed to to this!
I've installed IBM AS/400 ClientAccess 5.8 driver (with a patch for latest OS), and now I'm trying to configure a new Linked Server in my Sql Server 2008 R2 (x64) server.
First problem: Which driver should I use?
I have so many choices (but maybe none of these works!!):
IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries IBMDASQL OLE DB Provider
IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries IBMDA400 OLE DB Provider
IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries IBMDARLA OLE DB Provider
...or maybe other generic OLEDB/ODBC drivers?!
Second problem: Where should I put my parameters (in which fields I mean!)
In any case, in I choose a provider for my Linked Server, obviously I have to set my parameters...but I only have this:
Username of an ADMIN user
Password of the ADMIN user
AS/400 server IP address
The name of "main" archive, in which my data are stored (something like ACG_DATV2)
Third problem: How should I write my queries? How to reference an AS/400 "archive" and tables?
I don't know how to build my reading query: where are tables and views (?!) stored and how can I reference them?
Thank you in advance!
I think there are many ways to achieve what you want, but I'll try to explain what I would do in your case.
With that version of IBM ClientAccess (and also the patch), I should not have troubles in getting connected with a Sql Server 2008 R2 Linked Server if you use the correct data provider.
First of all, try to configure your linked server in this way:
Linked server name: what you want, it's just a custom name (example: MYAS400)
Provider: IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries IBMDASQL OLE DB Provider
Product name: not important, something like iSeries Access OLEDB Driver
Data source: AS/400 server IP address (example: 192.168.0.1)
Either if you configure the Linked Server using the wizard or by SQL code, the first time it will need to access the data of the AS/400 server, you'll be asked for credentials, with a typical iSeries window (look at my example).
Set your username (User ID) and the relative password, without regarding the case of the strings!!
As a general tip (but this is only related to my experience!), try to avoid special characters and upper/lower cases distinctions...
If you arrive here (no problems in the Linked Server creation), the Linked Server should work (so the first and the second problem are solved): let's build the first query!
Once the Linked Server is created, all you need is just to correctly reference the archive, the library and, of course, the correct table and the Linked Server (by name): with this informations, build a query like this (it's the usual T-SQL syntax):
SELECT
(Field1)
, (Field2)
, *
FROM (Linked Server Name).(Catalog Name).(Library).(TableName)
The only information you're probably missing is the "archive": you can easily find it browsing the Catalogs tree inside your new Linked Server, or just use iSeries Access Navigator tool!
So, in your case, I think the query should be (more or less):
SELECT
FILIO
, DTVLD
, DTVLA
, SEQZA
, CFIMP
, PADRE
, TPVLD
, CMVLD
, *
FROM MYAS400.S242DA0A.ACG_DATV2.ANLE200F
Note that S242DA0A is valid only in my case...
Remember also that:
AS/400 will probably ask you for credentials very often: also if you close and reopen SSMS.
Performance?...better to talk of something else :) ... extract the tables in your Sql Server tables and query them from there! Do it with a simple: SELECT (Fields) INTO myTable FROM (AS/400 table)
I've tried this process many times, I didn't have many troubles (once I get skilled about!)...but only for reading data (as you asked)! Never tried to update data!!!
GOOD LUCK!
When I link the Microsoft Access to SQL Server locally, everything works. The second I go to a computer that is on the network, I am not able to open the form I created on the Access database.
I found out that if I open the link, I will get an error. If I choose where the DB through configurations in Access, I get the error again. If I try this a third time, it connects to the database and it is fully linked--I am able to type data into Access and it will store it in the SQL Server database as well.
My question is: How do I get it to connect to the server on the first try? I have to hit "connect" three times which takes about 5 minutes to log in. That isn't very efficient when the people using this program nothing about computers.
Linking Access to SQL Server uses ODBC. Make sure your ODBC settings are correct.