what is causing Confluence to error out when trying to complete MS SQL database connection?

[narzate]

Here is the error message I received after trying to complete installation and connection of Confluence to a MS SQL 2014 DB?

HTTP Status 500 - com.atlassian.spring.container.ComponentNotFoundException: Failed to find component: Error creating bean with name 'i18NBean' defined in class path resource [i18NContext.xml]: Bean instantiation via factory method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.atlassian.confluence.util.i18n.I18NBean]: Factory method 'getI18NBean' threw exception; nested exception is java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessResourceUsageException: could not extract ResultSet; SQL [n/a]; nested exception is org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not extract ResultSet

type Exception report

message com.atlassian.spring.container.ComponentNotFoundException: Failed to find component: Error creating bean with name 'i18NBean' defined in class path resource [i18NContext.xml]: Bean instantiation via factory method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.atlassian.confluence.util.i18n.I18NBean]: Factory method 'getI18NBean' threw exception; nested exception is java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessResourceUsageException: could not extract ResultSet; SQL [n/a]; nested exception is org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not extract ResultSet

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Could you tell us what version of Confluence it is, and what it is reporting for its java version?

[narzate]

Confluence 6.2.3  

I don't see Java installed. Could that be the problem? What version do I need? FYI - I have JIRA help desk installed on the same server. I plan to integrate Confluence with JIRA help desk. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, that should be fine, Confluence will be using a bundled Java, which is good.

There should be further errors in the log following this - more "caused by" lines.  As you've ruled out the java and a couple of other problems, it's well worth looking urther down there.