How to Fix the PKIX Certificate Error After Upgrading SonarQube

After I updated SonarQube to version 9.7, I got this strange entry in the logs: Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target Should you run into the same error, append a ;encrypt=false to the connection string to your SQL Server database:

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