The dialect is defined on the QIE service manager. It is in the Startup Tab under the Arguments
-Dhibernate.dialect=com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer????UnicodeDialect
We need to update this to match your sql version here is a list of values:
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2005UnicodeDialect 
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2008UnicodeDialect 
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2012UnicodeDialect 
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2014UnicodeDialect 
 
Available as of QIE version .47 
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2016UnicodeDialect 
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2017UnicodeDialect 
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2019UnicodeDialect
 
Available as of QIE version 23.4.1 
com.qvera.qie.persistence.SQLServer2022UnicodeDialect  
Once you have updated that you can click apply. Then go to the general tab and stop then start the service for the changes to take effect.