Microsoft JDBC Driver Team Blog : General

v2.0 January 2009 Community Technology Preview Released

dpblogs — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:24:00 GMT

The SQL Server JDBC team is happy to announce the release of the January 2009 community technology preview. This beta release is feature complete, which includes, but not limited to, JDBC 4.0 SQLXML data type; National Character set; driver autoloading; new metadata methods; and enhanced tracing. You can download the beta release at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc.

Jimmy Wu
SQL Server JDBC Team

SQL Server JDBC driver v2.0 beta is now available

dpblogs — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:48:00 GMT

We are proud to announce the availability of our beta v2.0 driver with support for JDBC 4.0 National Character Set JDBC data types and API methods among others. We have also enhanced our built-in tracing leveraging the Java logger utility by adding method entry and exit traces and better differentiation between the logger levels.

The beta driver is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc

We welcome all feedback as we continue to improve this driver for the community.

Jimmy Wu
SQL Server JDBC Team

Does SQL Server 2000 JDBC driver support SQL Server 2005?

dpblogs — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:35:00 GMT

We have heard from a number of customers asking if the SQL Server 2000 JDBC driver will work with SQL Server 2005. Unfortunately, it will not.

If you are looking to migrate an existing SQL Server 2000 JDBC application running on the SQL Server 2000 JDBC driver to SQL Server 2005, we recommend that you download the latest SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc and update the existing JDBC application to work with the SS2005 JDBC driver. Once that is working, upgrade the backend SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver will work against SQL Server 2000, 2005, as well as the upcoming SQL Server 2008.

Jimmy Wu
SQL Server JDBC Team

Frequently Asked Questions for SQL Server JDBC Driver

dpblogs — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:55:00 GMT

We recently answered the top 20 most frequently asked questions about the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver.

You can find our FAQ page at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/cc325721.aspx.

Selcin Turkarslan, SQL Server