# I can 't connect the database to ignition

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/i-can-t-connect-the-database-to-ignition/53978>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** database\
**Created:** [December 10, 2021, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/i-can-t-connect-the-database-to-ignition/53978 "2021-12-10T00:05:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/i-can-t-connect-the-database-to-ignition/53978/2 "2021-12-10T00:09:43Z")

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Welcome!

> [@Connected to SQL Server Express failied](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connected-to-sql-server-express-failied/53768):
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> Hello, I am a developer of Oasys HMI developer and like to expend my career to ignition. I download software and try it out on my windows 10 first time. I got following error after installed JRE, copied unzipped JDBC driver C:\Program Files\Microsoft JDBC DRIVER 9.4 for SQL Server to from [Download - JDBC Driver for SQL Server | Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/jdbc/download-microsoft-jdbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15) (I could not find exe installation version) Any problem solving process I could follow up? My SQL server instance called “DESKTOP-ENHKM1F\SQLEXPRESS”. …

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