Brett Wooldridge, I just used the following:
09:10:58,560 DEBUG JdbcEnvironmentInitiator:83 - Driver -> name : Microsoft JDBC Driver 6.1 for SQL Server version : 6.1.0.0 major : 6 minor : 1
I didn't run into any issues against a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 environment using SQLServer2012Dialect with the 6.1.0.0 driver. Thoughts?