I am installing fresh copy of opentext 16.2.8, and when I try to create new database it keep on failing with the following error. I have installation of SQL Server 2016 standard
Error: Could not connect. ----> Error stack ----> 1) E675217410:ODBC reported error.:[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]Invalid connection. ----> 2) E675217410:ODBC reported error.:[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]Invalid connection. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (ParseConnectParams()). ----> 3) E675086340:Could not connect.
Log
01/28/2021 17:42:18 INFO [66024053273] 0000000168: ****** CAPIAllocConnect called ...
01/28/2021 17:42:18 INFO [66024053380] 0000000169: KConnect::Connect(...) .. open the connection.
01/28/2021 17:42:18 INFO [66024053671] 0000000170: KSqlODBC::SubclassConnect BCPEnabled() = TRUE
01/28/2021 17:42:36 INFO [66042485428] 0000000171: KSqlODBC::SubclassConnect() DSN (connection string): DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=DESKTOP-8G0H7M6;UID=sa;DATABASE=master;
01/28/2021 17:42:36 ERROR [66042485572] 0000000172: ODBC diagnostic error: 1 ODBC error code: 0 ODBC state: HYT00 ODBC error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Login timeout expired
01/28/2021 17:42:36 ERROR [66042485650] 0000000173: KSql::Connect('DESKTOP-8G0H7M6','master','sa','*','','API100') --> 'Could not connect.',[sec: 18 msec: 431]
01/28/2021 17:42:36 INFO [66042485692] 0000000174: KSql::Connect .. ConnectionType = ODBC
01/28/2021 17:42:36 INFO [66042485720] 0000000175: KSql::Connect .. DatabaseType = DB_UNKNOWN
01/28/2021 17:42:36 INFO [66042485760] 0000000176: KSql::Connect .. MaxLength = 32767
01/28/2021 17:42:36 INFO [66042485784] 0000000177: KSql::Connect .. MaxLongLength = 32767
01/28/2021 17:42:36 INFO [66042485820] 0000000178: KSql::Connect .. SubQueryBlobs = TRUE
01/28/2021 17:42:36 ERROR [66042485856] 0000000179: KConnect::Connect(...) --> 'Could not connect.'
Installing the latest ODBC drivers solved the issue. As mentioned in the comment by AlwaysLearning