Red face : my bad, my bad.

Typo in the MS DSN.

Yech.

Sorry. Shoulda said sqlquery not fetch. Query access works great, view fetch doesn't. The article does reference SQL Server 2016 which is the next thing I will try.

Did that. Mentioned in the original post

Created a view in SQL 2014 but when I access it via the sqlfetch command it raises a "table not found on channel".

Pasting the same sql code used in creating...