With trembling fingers, she appended the magic words:
The error was simple, yet maddening.
“There’s your problem,” she muttered. No encryption. No host name in the server field—just a raw IP. Driver 18 saw an IP address, asked for a certificate for that IP, found none, and slammed the door.
She hit F5.
Provider=MSOLEDBSQL19;Server=10.0.0.5;Database=Payroll;Trusted_Connection=yes;