If you try to install Microsoft Command Line Utilities 14.0 for SQL Server you may see the following warning:
After seeing this message you install the requested ODBC driver from here. However, the install still reports a missing ODBC driver. But ODBC Administrator will show that it is installed:
The installation requisite is misleading and you actually need to install version 13.1 of the ODBC driver from here:
Microsoft® ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server
After you install the newer driver, the SQL Command line Utilities installation will succeed.
Denver says
Perfect, this was exactly what we needed, and the MS error is just as misleading as you described. Thank you!
Joey says
Thank you, this post help me installing the SQL Command Line utilities.
Chris says
Thank you – this post was extremely helpful. I was going round in a loop, installing & uninstalling ODBC driver 11 and getting nowwhere until I discovered your article. It has solved the problem! 0 marks to Microsoft for a completely misleading error message!