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
April 29, 2019 at 2:55 pmPerfect, this was exactly what we needed, and the MS error is just as misleading as you described. Thank you!
Joey says
May 15, 2019 at 9:40 amThank you, this post help me installing the SQL Command Line utilities.
Chris says
May 21, 2019 at 11:17 amThank 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!