Cannot load driver class: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver

Question

I am getting an exception while running my spring boot application, it say unable to create bean of datasource and caused of this exception is that it unable to detect my Dr

Answer 1

Is the jar present on your system? You are forcing maven to get the dependency from the system and if it is not on that path maven will fail. Can you replace the tag with these :

    com.microsoft
    sqljdbc4
    3.0

Source: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft/sqljdbc4/3.0