topic ERROR MESSAGE WHEN CONNECTING TO SDE DATABASE in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/error-message-when-connecting-to-sde-database/m-p/642335#M36308 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><IMG alt="" class="" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/385492_Error.png" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;" /></P><DIV class="" style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">Hi,&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">I do GIS consulting work for a city (mainly data development).&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">I've moved all my feature datasets that were stored in a file geodatabase into an Enterprise SDE database.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">Some of my GIS users are getting error messages when trying to connect to our SDE database.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">The error messages says "Failed to connect to database. Connection was attempted with an older version of SQL Server Client" (see attached screen shot).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">If anyone can point me to some documentation or has the solution, I would really appreciate it.</SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:04:32 GMT MarcosMendez 2017-12-01T22:04:32Z ERROR MESSAGE WHEN CONNECTING TO SDE DATABASE https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/error-message-when-connecting-to-sde-database/m-p/642335#M36308 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><IMG alt="" class="" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/385492_Error.png" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;" /></P><DIV class="" style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">Hi,&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">I do GIS consulting work for a city (mainly data development).&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">I've moved all my feature datasets that were stored in a file geodatabase into an Enterprise SDE database.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">Some of my GIS users are getting error messages when trying to connect to our SDE database.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">The error messages says "Failed to connect to database. Connection was attempted with an older version of SQL Server Client" (see attached screen shot).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 14px;">If anyone can point me to some documentation or has the solution, I would really appreciate it.</SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:04:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/error-message-when-connecting-to-sde-database/m-p/642335#M36308 MarcosMendez 2017-12-01T22:04:32Z Re: ERROR MESSAGE WHEN CONNECTING TO SDE DATABASE https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/error-message-when-connecting-to-sde-database/m-p/642336#M36309 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Marcos,</P><P>Give the Microsoft ODBC v13 driver a try</P><P>-Bill</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:25:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/error-message-when-connecting-to-sde-database/m-p/642336#M36309 BillFox 2017-12-01T22:25:12Z