DSN Contains a Mismatch Between the Driver and Application

Issue

I am receiving the below error in Validation:

Validation Plugin Manager error on event 8. ERROR [IM014] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application.

How can I resolve this issue?

Solution

This error can be caused by using a 64-bit odbcad32.exe to create the DSN pointing to the database to be used for the Database Validation that is in place.

Use the 32-bit odbcad32.exe (located in C:\Windows\SysWOW64).

Level of Complexity 

Moderate

Applies to  

References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql...l-server-ver15

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