Working Backwards from Error Logs: Reverse Engineering the Tableau-to-Fabric OAuth Breakdown
🛑 The Crime Scene: A Misleading Desktop Failure When modern lakehouse architectures meet desktop analytics clients, authentication breakdowns rarely announce their true root cause. Instead, engineers are handed generic hex codes and deceptive UI prompts. During an enterprise deployment of Microsoft Fabric Warehouse, data analysts attempted to connect Tableau Desktop (2024.2.0) to the Fabric SQL/TDS endpoint (*.datawarehouse.fabric.microsoft.com) using the native Azure SQL Database connector and Microsoft Entra ID modern authentication. ...