Greetings Developer Community, The Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server now supports JRE 7. If you have applications running against JRE 6 (or 5) and roll them forward to execute against JRE7, the Microsoft JDBC driver is now fully supported...

Many of you have asked for Table Valued Parameters (TVP) support in the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server. We have added TVP support to our roadmap and are gathering requirements (we don’t have an availability date yet). We would like to...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, I am pleased to report that the Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server is now released . Thank you for all your great feedback on our three community technology previews (CTP). Our 4.0 release contains some great...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Thank you for your ongoing support of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server. Some of you reported problems with dates when using JRE 1.7. The Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server currently supports JRE 1...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Thank you for your ongoing support of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server. We have an update on the connection issues some of you experienced when using Java 6 update 29 and above. Java 6 update 29 (6u29...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Are you using the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server to access SQL Azure? If so, we would like to talk to you about your experience. Please contact us via the following ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jdbcteam/contact...

This has been re-posted from the SQL Server Team Blog . In our continued commitment to interoperability, we are very excited to announce the availability of a preview release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux! This release will allow native developers...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Thank you for your ongoing support of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server. We have recently had some questions regarding which versions of Java are supported by the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server...

Greetings Developer community: We heard yesterday and today at the PASS conference about the exciting new areas that we are investing in to bring the power of SQL Server to our customers. Many of our developers who rely on native connectivity to SQL...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Thank you for providing great feedback on our first two Community Technology Previews (CTPs) of Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server. I am very pleased to announce the availability of our third CTP . This CTP...

SQL Server developer community thanks for all your input to date for our roadmap. I am the new Program Manager for Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server and would like input while planning our next release. In the past, we have had requests for both...

Thank you very much for an overwhelming response on our survey. Feedback is continuing to pour in. We are extending the deadline to complete the survey to September 16 th , 2011 to allow everyone to provide input. Your feedback helps us on the broad SQL...

Thank you very much for an overwhelming response on our survey. Feedback is continuing to pour in. We are extending the deadline to complete the survey to September 16 th , 2011 to allow everyone to provide input. Your feedback helps us on the broad SQL...

This entry has been cross-posted from the Windows Azure Team Blog . As the SQL Azure July 2011 Service Release is being rolled out, we want to advise you of an important consideration for your application logic. Some customers may be programmatically...

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 2 years, we completed surveys that focused on the broad SQL Connectivity components...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Thank you for providing great feedback on our first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server. I am very pleased to announce the availability of our second CTP . This CTP includes...

Greetings to the SQL Server community: Back around October 2009, we introduced the process of interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. Today, we are happy to introduce the ability for you to suggest and vote...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Thank you for taking the time to evaluate our Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server Community Technical Preview (CTP) . We have received some great feedback and we will be making appropriate changes based...

Dear SQL Server and SQL Azure developers and users: We are very pleased to announce the availability of an updated version of Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 supporting Microsoft SQL Azure database: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: As a follow up to my last post regarding the next release of our JDBC driver called the Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server, I am very pleased to announce the availability of our first community technology...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: Happy new year to all the SQL Server® developers and users! In my last post I mentioned that the Microsoft® JDBC team is working very hard on the next release of our JDBC driver for SQL Server. We will...

Dear SQL Server developers and users, Based on your input via a survey back in April 2010, various customer engagements, forums, SQL PASS conference, JDBC team has been working very hard on the next release of Microsoft JDBC driver for SQL Server. We...

Greetings to the SQL Server community: Last year in October 2009, we introduced the process of interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 12 months, we completed surveys that focused on the...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: In the last few weeks, I have received a number of queries on which driver version is supported with which SQL server version. I have created a support matrix describing the supported configuration. Matrix also...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: On June 25th 2011, Microsoft will end support for SQL Server JDBC Driver 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. Microsoft will retire public and technical support, including security updates, on this date. We will discontinue...