Missing artifact com.microsoft.sqlserver:sqljdbc4:jar:4.0

UPDATE

Microsoft now provide this artifact in maven central. See @nirmal's answer for further details: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41149866/1570834

ORIGINAL ANSWER

The issue is that Maven can't find this artifact in any of the configured maven repositories.

Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't make this artifact available via any maven repository. You need to download the jar from the Microsoft website, and then manually install it into your local maven repository.

You can do this with the following maven command:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=sqljdbc4.jar -DgroupId=com.microsoft.sqlserver -DartifactId=sqljdbc4 -Dversion=4.0 -Dpackaging=jar

Then next time you run maven on your POM it will find the artifact.

Microsoft recently open sourced their jdbc driver.

You can now find the driver on maven central:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.sqlserver/mssql-jdbc --><dependency>    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>    <version>6.1.0.jre8</version></dependency>

or for java 7:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.sqlserver/mssql-jdbc --><dependency>    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>    <version>6.1.0.jre7</version></dependency>

I had the similar problem and solved it by doing following.

• Download sqljdbc4.jar from the Microsoft website to your local machine.
  
• Right click on Project-->Import-->Maven-->Install or deploy an artifact to a Maven repository as shown below.
  
  

* Next-->Fill the following details

Artifact file: path of the jar you downloaded (Ex: E:\lib\sqljdbc4.jar in my case)
Group Id: com.microsoft.sqlserver
Artifact Id: sqljdbc4
Version: 4.0

• Then Refresh/clean the project.
  
  Thank you!