title: Pentaho data integration: jdbc connection to MS SQL Server not working
body: <p>With the community edition of Pentaho Data Integration - Kettle 5.0.1 (<a href="http://community.pentaho.com/projects/data-integration/" rel="nofollow">http://community.pentaho.com/projects/data-integration/</a>) I could connect to my MS SQL Server 2014 database with no issues, choosing MS SQL Serever and then Native (JDBC) from tools -? wizard -> create database connection.</p>
  
  <p>I have now upgraded to the latest 5.4 version, and I can no longer connect.</p>
  
  <p>The error I get is the following.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions on how to fix this? What I find confusing is that I can't find a way to tell Pentaho where excatly the jdbc drivers are. E.g. I downloaded Microsoft's JDBC drivers (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=11774" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=11774</a>), but how do I get Pentaho to use them? I copied the file sqljdbc42.jar to c:\Pentaho\lib but to no avail. I also tried using it in the 'generic database' option but, again, to no avail.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error connecting to database [c] : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  Error occurred while trying to connect to the database
  
  Error connecting to database: (using class net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver)
  I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded. Check the java.library.path system property.
  
  
  org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  Error occurred while trying to connect to the database
  
  Error connecting to database: (using class net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver)
  I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded. Check the java.library.path system property.
  
  
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.normalConnect(Database.java:428)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:358)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:311)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:301)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseFactory.getConnectionTestReport(DatabaseFactory.java:80)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseMeta.testConnection(DatabaseMeta.java:2686)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.dialog.DatabaseDialog.test(DatabaseDialog.java:109)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.wizard.CreateDatabaseWizardPage2.test(CreateDatabaseWizardPage2.java:157)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.wizard.CreateDatabaseWizardPage2$3.widgetSelected(CreateDatabaseWizardPage2.java:147)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:820)
      at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:796)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.wizard.CreateDatabaseWizard.createAndRunDatabaseWizard(CreateDatabaseWizard.java:111)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.createDatabaseWizard(Spoon.java:7595)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulDomContainer.invoke(AbstractXulDomContainer.java:313)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:157)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:141)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.jface.tags.JfaceMenuitem.access$100(JfaceMenuitem.java:43)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.jface.tags.JfaceMenuitem$1.run(JfaceMenuitem.java:106)
      at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:498)
      at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:545)
      at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:490)
      at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:402)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.readAndDispatch(Spoon.java:1319)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.waitForDispose(Spoon.java:7939)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.start(Spoon.java:9190)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.main(Spoon.java:654)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.commons.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:92)
  Caused by: org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  Error connecting to database: (using class net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver)
  I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded. Check the java.library.path system property.
  
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connectUsingClass(Database.java:592)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connectUsingClass(Database.java:4697)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.normalConnect(Database.java:414)
      ... 43 more
  Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded. Check the java.library.path system property.
      at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.TdsCore.login(TdsCore.java:615)
      at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.&lt;init&gt;(ConnectionJDBC2.java:345)
      at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC3.&lt;init&gt;(ConnectionJDBC3.java:50)
      at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver.connect(Driver.java:184)
      at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
      at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connectUsingClass(Database.java:578)
      ... 45 more
  Caused by: java.io.IOException: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded. Check the java.library.path system property.
      at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.TdsCore.sendMSLoginPkt(TdsCore.java:1893)
      at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.TdsCore.login(TdsCore.java:588)
  </code></pre>