title: How to connect Power BI Desktop to MYSQL Database on my local Machine?
body: <p>I tried to connect from Power BI Desktop to MySQL to get data from MySQL database into Power BI but got an error message and I do not know how to fix this. Can someone please help me out?
  This is the error message I keep on getting.
  The error message is:</p>
  
  <p><code>Details: "MySQL: Host 'DELL-PC' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server"</code></p>
  
  <p>I have also tried editing my settings on Power BI by going to file|options &amp; settings|data source settings but still could not fix it.</p>
  
  <p>Please how to fix this?</p>