One of the biggest changes you may not have noticed in the v1.1 2005 JDBC driver is that we have changed the default isolation level for Distributed Transactions from Serializable to Read Committed. This is in line with other JDBC drivers like our 2000...

I have gotten some questions about using Sql Server 2005 with the 2005 JDBC driver. There are unfortunately a lot of misconceptions in this area. Here are some notes to make this a little bit easier to understand. The first thing you need to understand...

The v1.1 2005 JDBC driver is now available for download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/jdbc/ This is a release I am personally really proud of, and we could not have done it without you! Maybe it’s the fact that not that many...