Connect Fabric database from R studio

[Vinodh247]

How to connect Fabric lakehouse db from R studio?

We have this requirement to access lakehouse db from within R studio. I searched and didnt find anything related to this, is there any workaround for this currently?

[Anonymous]

Hi, @Vinodh247 

The following post tries to use RStudio to connect to Endpoint, you can try to test the connection using her method, whether this can give you inspiration.
Microsoft Fabric to RStudio Desktop - RStudio IDE - Posit Community

Also, the current version of Notebook supports the use of Visual Studio, so you can try using it too.

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[FlavioLeccese]

As an R user i would suggest you to use DBI and dbplyr.

- You can retrieve sql endpoint of that lakehouse
- Create a Service Principal in Azure and use it as a "super user" (https://learn.microsoft.com/it-it/entra/identity-platform/app-objects-and-service-principals?tabs=br...)

# r code:

driver <- "ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server"
server <- "put here the sql end point of lakehouse"
database <- "lakehouse, ie database name"
authentication <- "ActiveDirectoryServicePrincipal"
encrypt <- "True"
userid <- "id of the Service Principal"
password <- "Password of the Service Principal"
port <- 1433

connection_string <- glue("Driver={driver}; Server={server}; UID={userid}; PWD={password}; Port={port}; Database={database}; Encoding=UTF-8; Authentication={authentication}")

con <- DBI::dbConnect(odbc::odbc(), .connection_string = connection_string)

This is a clean way and you can read tables also from outside MS Fabric, however, as far as I discovered, you won't be able to write but only to read

[spencer_sa]

Similar to the above two posts, we've used the ODBC driver.  For the proof of concept I used the AZ command line interface (AZCLI) tool to get a token as a user (so authenticating via web client) and then using that token with DBI.
(Incidentally, this is also how I've got the initial Fabric -> Alteryx connection working until I get the ADFS connection behaving)