Qlik Cloud Analytics will no longer function with outdated version of Microsoft SQL Server

[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

Starting from the week of August 14th 2023, Qlik Cloud Analytics will no longer be able to utilize non-supported Microsoft SQL data sources. This affects Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and earlier.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and earlier are not supported by Microsoft (see SQL Server lifecycle dates). If you are unclear which version of SQL Server you have, use one of the methods described in this Microsoft article.

Upcoming Changes

Qlik Cloud Analytics is performing a required security update in August 2023, resulting in no access to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or earlier. This update will also result in no support for TLS version 1.1 and earlier as well as any deprecated cryptographic functions.

Additional Information

While client-managed and standalone web connectors are not directly affected by this change, they do not support outdated versions of Microsoft SQL Server, such as MS SQL 2012. See Supported Microsoft SQL Server versions.

For additional information, see Outdated, out of support versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Qlik Cloud Analytics.

Thanks for choosing Qlik! 

Qlik Global Support 

[parkera]

Hello,

If Aug 1, we have 10 working days to resolve. Was this previously communicated?

[P-O_Davidson]

Hi,

The update is planned occur in the week of August 14. So, that provides about four weeks from now for those that need to upgrade.

Note that it only impacts connections against the old SQL Server versions, 2008 and 2012, which have been out of support by Microsoft for a while. If you connect to later SQL Server versions, there will be no action required.

Thanks,
P-O

[makunii]

Hi Sonja_Bauernfeind 

After the change, some clients using Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2016 has issues with Microsoft SQL Connector from Qlik Cloud SaaS.

The Qlik's support solution is to upgrade the OS to Windows Server 2022 Datacenter. 

The change affected not only SQL 2012  and earlier, but clients using Windows Server 2012R2 as well. Do you know about it?

Thank you

Regards,

Marco