The Beast was old. It relied on a specific connectivity layer that modern Windows Server editions had long since buried in the "deprecated" pile. The documentation he found on a dusty internal wiki was sparse: Requires Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0 ODBC Driver.
is the driver version associated with SQL Server 2008 . It is considered obsolete and unsupported by Microsoft.
Here are some common issues that you may encounter when using the Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0 ODBC driver: