[Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 for SQL Server]: SSL Provider: The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted.
Driver 18 wasn’t the enemy. It was just the honest gatekeeper. And tonight, Lena had learned the password.
Lena knew the lore. Driver 18 was the strict one. The hall monitor. It didn’t believe in handshakes or blind trust. It demanded and it actually checked the certificates. No exceptions.