1.Installed MS SQL server, created an empty database, 'created' 2. Created one user ''mxadminn'' in the new database in SQL. 3. Opened mendix modeler, in configuration mentioned below settings and ran locally. 4. But I get error "Opening JDBC connection to Some(database=created) failed with SQLState: 08S01 Error code: 0 Message: The TCP/IP connection to the host database=created, port 1433 has failed. Error: "database=created. Verify the connection properties. Make sure that an instance of SQL Server is running on the host and accepting TCP/IP connections at the port. Make sure that TCP connections to the port are not blocked by a firewall.". Retrying...(2/4) " like thi s I am using mssql-jdbc-7.0.0.jre8.jar file used