title: Pentaho SQL (Native) connection error
body: <p>I'm running a couple of SQL connections from a Job. They are all working with the <strong>sqljdbc4.jar</strong>, but when I run them with MS SQL Server <em>Native</em> (which was by default) instead of MS SQL Server  - they fail with this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error connecting to database [xxx_zxxxx] : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  Error occured while trying to connect to the database
  
  Error connecting to database: (using class com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver)
  Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.7 is not supported by this driver. Use the sqljdbc4.jar class library, which provides support for JDBC 4.0.
  
  
      org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
      Error occured while trying to connect to the database
  
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.normalConnect(Database.java:427)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:361)
      .................
      Caused by: org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can this be caused by the new JDK_1.8 I've installed? How to resolve this issue?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>