TestComplete: Any issues know for connecting to SQL 2016
All,
I have a TestComplete automation fwk where I use the SQL Native Client and ADO for accessing SQL DBs.
This has worked for the past 9+ years for my auto fwk approach.
Connecting to an SQL Server instance
The syntax of specifying the server instance in the value of the server key is the same for all
connection strings for SQL Server.
Provider=SQLNCLI10;Server=myServerName\theInstanceName;Database=myDataBase;Trusted_Connection=yes;
or
Provider=SQLNCLI11;Server=myServerName\theInstanceName;Database=myDataBase;Trusted_Connection=yes;
This works for me when accessing a SQL 2008 server or SQL 2014 server.
Some of our SQL DB servers are being upgraded to SQL 2016 and now when using the
same connection string I get the following error msg:
'TCP Provider: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host'
This comes from when execution the the cmd.
RecSet = Cmd.Execute();
Anyone ever experience this issue ?
I would think the same connection string I am using would still be valid for access to SQL 2016 ?
I have tried this on TestComplete 12.42, 12.60
I have used SQLNCLI10, SQLNCLI11
Just trying to isolate the issue.
I think maybe the newly created SQL 2106 server has a wrong configuration setting ?
or
Maybe my connection string is invalid for SQL 2016 use?
Any help would be much appreciated !
Thanks,
JamesK
Solution found!!!
It was NOT a SQL Server issue nor connection string issue:
The normal SQL Native Client 11.0 deployed and used is:
SQL Server Native Client 11.0 2011.110.2100.60
or
SQL Server Native Client 11.0 2011.110.3000.0
In testing my connection string against the above SQL Server Native Client 11.0
version, the server does not get recognized correctly with either above versions.
If you install SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Native Client 11.0 version 2011.11.0.65xx.x
also comes along and gets install. For one of my developers, this allows the SQL Server
Native Client 11.0 connection string test to work for him.
So now we narrow down the issue to driver version.
Unaware of any of the latest version of SQL Server Native Client 11.0,
searching on the internet I came across:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50402
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client - QFE (Quick Fix Engineering) – a patch/hotfix
When installed, it is the following version:
SQL Server Native Client 11.0 2011.110.7001.00
higher then what comes with SQL 2016 Server.
So the hotfix must have come from SQL 2016 breaking other users like myself.
In manually testing my connection string against the above SQL Server Native Client 11.0
version, the server does get recognized correctly and the connection test PASSES.
Testing in automation using TestComplete now works as well for that testing
using SQL Server Native Client 11.0 2011.110.7001.00.
So from what all that was explained above, automation is now ok with SQL 2016.
The appropriate QFE will be applied accordingly and connection string modified
for SQLNCLI11 use.
Regards,
JamesK
