Download driver
Microsoft official website download Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver: https://www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11774&e6b34bbe-475b-1abd-2c51-b5034bcdd6d2=true&a03ffa40-ca8b -4f73-0358-c191d75a7468=true&44F86079-8679-400C-BFF2-9CA5F2BCBDFC=1
Double-click the downloaded software to decompress it, find the sqljdbc42.jar file under the jre8 folder, and copy sqljdbc42.jar to the kettle installation directory kettle\pdi-ce-9.0.0.0-423\data-integration\libswt folder, as shown in the figure:
Connect to the database
Open kettle, create a database connection, and the test is successful.