64 bit machine
Enterprise Windows 7
Office 2013 32 bit
Excel 2013
I have admin rights on the machine
I created a set of queries in Power Query.
I want to access the queries (in multiple tabs) from Power Pivot as my data sources
I opened a new Excel file, Opened Power Pivot
I clicked the Manage Data Model button
I clicked From Other Sources in "Get External Data"
I clicked Excel and browsed to the excel file with the Power Query query files
I select the file and click test connection
and I get an error "Failed to connect to the server. Reason: Unspecified error"
This is a local excel file I created. I have rights to it!
I once fixed this by enabling all SQL services I could find. But that is not working now.
Help!
Full message below:
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Unspecified error
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Failed to connect to the server. Reason: Unspecified error
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Call Stack:
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at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection, DbConnectionInternal& connection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.TryOpenConnectionInternal(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.TryOpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.BackEnd.RelationalDataSourceConnection.InitializeConnectionObject(String connectionIdentifier)
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at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.BackEnd.RelationalDataSourceConnection.InitializeConnectionObject(String connectionIdentifier)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.BackEnd.RelationalDataSourceConnection.Open(String& connectionIdentifier)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.BackEnd.RelationalDataSourceConnection.Open()
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Common.DataSourceBasic.TestConnection()
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Common.DataSourceBasic.ClickTestConnection(Object progressControl)
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