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SQL Command Line Utilities Install fail due to missing ODBC driver

February 1, 2019 by Paulie 11 Comments

If you try to install Microsoft Command Line Utilities 14.0 for SQL Server you may see the following warning:

Image showing Microsoft Command Line Utilities for SQL Server failing to install due to an ODBC Driver Requirement
Setup is missing an installation prerequisite: Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server.

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:

Image showing Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver 11 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.

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  1. Denver says

    April 29, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    Perfect, this was exactly what we needed, and the MS error is just as misleading as you described. Thank you!

  2. Joey says

    May 15, 2019 at 9:40 am

    Thank you, this post help me installing the SQL Command Line utilities.

  3. Chris says

    May 21, 2019 at 11:17 am

    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!

  4. Fakhar says

    January 22, 2020 at 6:10 am

    Thank you so much, Microsoft should fix such errors promptly. Cool Paulie

  5. Carlos says

    February 27, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    I love U

  6. Payal Gandhi says

    April 27, 2020 at 11:13 am

    Thanks for the help. Error message by Microsoft is really misleading

  7. Some Guy from AU says

    August 20, 2020 at 9:56 am

    Thank you! Helped me today too 🙂

  8. Hello says

    October 12, 2020 at 7:55 am

    You are a champion for posting this info!

  9. saurabh says

    December 15, 2020 at 9:57 am

    i am stil getting same error even if i follow the links given in the article.

  10. Antonio Carlos Costa Andrade says

    June 24, 2021 at 12:40 am

    You save my live. I hate Microsoft.

  11. Richard Artes says

    August 16, 2021 at 12:29 pm

    Thanks so much. So much more helpful than Microsoft.

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