topic Re: Unable to connect to Microsoft SQL Server in Talend Studio https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Unable-to-connect-to-Microsoft-SQL-Server/m-p/2328315#M97610 <P>Resolved, by adding an additional \ escape to be like this dbname\\db</P> Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:00:18 GMT Anonymous 2018-03-22T14:00:18Z Unable to connect to Microsoft SQL Server https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Unable-to-connect-to-Microsoft-SQL-Server/m-p/2328314#M97609 <P>Hi&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I am trying to connect to a Microsoft SQL server to execute a select statement and return the results</P> <P>The Job:</P> <P><SPAN class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="talend1.PNG" style="width: 679px;"><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="0683p000009LtAz.png"><img src="https://community.qlik.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/151882iEFF20821D7872A1F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="0683p000009LtAz.png" alt="0683p000009LtAz.png" /></span></SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I get the following Error during execution</P> <P><FONT color="#FF0000">Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: </FONT><BR /><FONT color="#FF0000">Invalid escape sequence (valid ones are \b \t \n \f \r \" \' \\ )</FONT></P> <P><FONT color="#FF0000">at financialreports.extractreceipts_0_1.ExtractReceipts.tMSSqlInput_1Process(ExtractReceipts.java:792)</FONT><BR /><FONT color="#FF0000">at</FONT></P> <P><FONT color="#000000">Has anyone experienced this before? I can connect to the server via SQL Manager and ODBC</FONT></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT color="#000000">Thanks</FONT></P> Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:28:49 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Unable-to-connect-to-Microsoft-SQL-Server/m-p/2328314#M97609 Anonymous 2018-03-22T13:28:49Z Re: Unable to connect to Microsoft SQL Server https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Unable-to-connect-to-Microsoft-SQL-Server/m-p/2328315#M97610 <P>Resolved, by adding an additional \ escape to be like this dbname\\db</P> Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:00:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/Unable-to-connect-to-Microsoft-SQL-Server/m-p/2328315#M97610 Anonymous 2018-03-22T14:00:18Z