I use sql server 2016 and follow the documentation for this. Jira Configuration Tool indicates that Connection Successful, but Jira can not proceed to next step. I used Jira for a while with H2 database in same environment and i wanted to use Ms sql instead of H2. I created a database for this, i can ignore old data so i don't need to immigrate from H2 to Ms Sql.
I created a database and try to connect it to Jira.