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Cannot connect to view in Synapse Analytics SQL database

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Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this question.

I have setup a Synapse Analytics Workspsace and a link to replicate Dataverse to a serverless SQL pool. We then have a connection to this database setup in PowerBI and that is working fine.

As you cannot create views for a replicated database we then setup a new SQL database on the same workspace and created a view and selected data from the Dataverse replication database.

When connecting PowerBI to this view it throws an error saying:

Expression.Error We cannot apply field access to the type Null.

Details:

Value=

Key=StorageDescriptor

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Anyone have any tip or suggestions to solve this issue?

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  • Siopold123 Profile Picture
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    RE: Cannot connect to view in Synapse Analytics SQL database

    Hi Frode, were you able to get an answer to this question. I have a similar issue where I have created a view in synapse against data lake CDM output I can run the view and join it etc in Synapse when I attempt to access via PowerBI on the simplest view I get this issue. What does it actually mean?

    Expression.Error: We cannot apply field access to the type Null.

    Details:

       Value=

       Key=StorageDescriptor

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    Dmitrii Solovev Profile Picture
    5 on at
    RE: Cannot connect to view in Synapse Analytics SQL database

    Well, it looks like a bug of a Synapse workspace connector. Have the same behavior when querying data from serverless pool. Works well if use Azure SQL connector: docs.microsoft.com/.../tutorial-connect-power-bi-desktop

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