Tag Archives: JDBC

New Microsoft 2005 (2000) JDBC Driver Released

The new Microsoft SQL Server 2005 driver has been released and can be downloaded from here. The new driver is a type 4 driver that has been completely written from scratch and supports SQL Server 2000 as well as 2005. Accoring to MS, its been tested against Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss and Sun AS.

Currently I’m using the jTDS drivers for connection to SQL Server and they seem pretty reliable. Its probably a bit early for any comparisons (the new driver was only released yeaterday), but if anyone knows any, please post a link in the comments.

JDBC Drivers

I’ve just come across this tip over on devx.com listing JDBC drivers and their connection strings for many different database vendors.

It may come in handy someday so I’ve bookmarked it here.

I was surprised though that it doesn’t contain details of the jTDS driver for SQL Server.