VishKini ,
ok - first thing - I always have trouble connecting to SQLServer - whats the connection type you're using? SQL? Mixed mode? Windows Auth?
what driver - JNDI or JDBC?
Try the SQL mode option - I couldnt connect with anything else when I last tried this.
the exception indicates you are trying to connect to a SQLServer instance local to the machine that ReadyAPI! is running is - is that correct? (due to 127.0.0.1) if thats the case - change authentication to SQL only - that works everytime as far as I can tell
otherwise we're going to need your full logging (both ReadyAPI! and SQLServer) to try and sort this out - but "connection refused" typically means a problem with your authentication/authorisation
ta
rich
