Is there any way to raise this with Microsoft without having to purchase a £199 single incident (Business hours support) support plan?

I don't see why we should be out of...

We already have ODBC drivers 17 and 18 as per the above. But SQL Server 2016 highlights a dependency on ODBC driver 13, which has a high-severity vulnerability identified (see...

All of our SQL Server 2016 instances are already on that latest build - Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (SP3-GDR) (KB5021129) - 13.0.6430.49 (X64).

We reviewed the SQL Server Agent error log...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by  zoggling.

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by  zoggling.

Has there please been any response from Microsoft, or the MVP?

Please see re-attached image showing 14.xx.

What version would they recommend upgrading SQL Server to? We're on the latest build for SQL Server 2016, which is still in support until 2026.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by  zoggling.

That's very helpful, thank you

This vulnerability is categorised as "Important" by Microsoft. Surely this needs to be addressed as a priority?

What installer would have created these ODBC DLLs? We have a few severs where...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by  zoggling.

We have tried the repair option, and all it did was to re-install the ODBC version 13 driver!

After uninstalling the ODBC version 13 driver again, the SQL Server Agent service...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by  zoggling.

Thank you. The User and System Data Source tabs are empty, in both the 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC Data Source Administrators. Should they be?

Thank you for your reply.

As per the above and attached, we already have ODBC driver 17.10.4.1 and ODBC driver 18.2.2.1 installed. We don't understand the dependency that the SQL Server...

Fair point!

Is there something we could have done to make that sort of search more efficient? How could we have done this differently? We were trying to fault-find an intermittent...

Could well be...

I have created an Extended Event session to try to capture what's going on.

-- Create new Extended Event session.
CREATE EVENT SESSION [StatusChanges] ON SERVER 
ADD...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by  zoggling.

Uninstalling "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client" resolve this for us.

Prior to this, we had also uninstalled all versions of SSMS, after we found the article below.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-support-blog/sql-server-2019-installation-error-an-error-occurred-for-a/ba-p/998033

Doing the...

Thank you for your response. I am a local admin, and a domain admin also experienced the same issues.

What permissions is this needing? How can we find out what policy...