There are more than one JDBC drivers for Microsoft SQL Server. Each one has a different driver name.
General JDBC Architecture consist of two layers: JDBC API - this provides the application to JDBC manager connection. JDBC driver API - this supports the JDBC manager to driver connection.
JDBC driver is an interface enabling a java application to interact with a database. To connect with individual database, JDBC requires drivers for each database.
JDBC Driver Manager is a class that manages a list of database drivers. It matches connection requests from the java application with the proper database driver using communication sub protocol.
JDBC - ODBC bridge
jdbc-odbc bridge is a jdbc driver required to connect java application to the specified database. Using this driver the java calls are converted to the odbc calls and then are referred to the database. Since odbc driver are the implemetation of the API written in C language. As in the case of this driver the API is provided by Sun MicroSystem itself and the implementation of these API is done by the Database Vendors.
JDBC is short for java database connectivity. There are 4 type of JDBC drivers : 1) JDBC-ODBC 2) Native-API 3) JDBC-Net 4) Native-Protocol.
If you need to access a database with Java, you need a driver. This is a list of the drivers available, what database they can access, who makes it, and how to contact them. IBM DB2 jdbc:db2://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB> COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver JDBC-ODBC Bridge jdbc:odbc:<DB> sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver Microsoft SQL Server jdbc:weblogic:mssqlserver4:<DB>@<HOST>:<PORT> weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver Oracle Thin jdbc:oracle:thin:@<HOST>:<PORT>:<SID> oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver PointBase Embedded Server jdbc:pointbase://embedded[:<PORT>]/<DB> com.pointbase.jdbc.jdbcUniversalDriver Cloudscape jdbc:cloudscape:<DB> COM.cloudscape.core.JDBCDriver Cloudscape RMI jdbc:rmi://<HOST>:<PORT>/jdbc:cloudscape:<DB> RmiJdbc.RJDriver Firebird (JCA/JDBC Driver) jdbc:firebirdsql:[//<HOST>[:<PORT>]/]<DB> org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver IDS Server jdbc:ids://<HOST>:<PORT>/conn?dsn='<ODBC_DSN_NAME>' ids.sql.IDSDriver Informix Dynamic Server jdbc:informix-sqli://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB>:INFORMIXSERVER=<SERVER_NAME> com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver InstantDB (v3.13 and earlier) jdbc:idb:<DB> jdbc.idbDriver InstantDB (v3.14 and later) jdbc:idb:<DB> org.enhydra.instantdb.jdbc.idbDriver Interbase (InterClient Driver) jdbc:interbase://<HOST>/<DB> interbase.interclient.Driver Hypersonic SQL (v1.2 and earlier) jdbc:HypersonicSQL:<DB> hSql.hDriver Hypersonic SQL (v1.3 and later) jdbc:HypersonicSQL:<DB> org.hsql.jdbcDriver Microsoft SQL Server (JTurbo Driver) jdbc:JTurbo://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB> com.ashna.jturbo.driver.Driver Microsoft SQL Server (Sprinta Driver) jdbc:inetdae:<HOST>:<PORT>?database=<DB> com.inet.tds.TdsDriver Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (Microsoft Driver) jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://<HOST>:<PORT>[;DatabaseName=<DB>] com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver MySQL (MM.MySQL Driver) jdbc:mysql://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB> org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver Oracle OCI 8i jdbc:oracle:oci8:@<SID> oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver Oracle OCI 9i jdbc:oracle:oci:@<SID> oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver PostgreSQL (v6.5 and earlier) jdbc:postgresql://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB> postgresql.Driver PostgreSQL (v7.0 and later) jdbc:postgresql://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB> org.postgresql.Driver Sybase (jConnect 4.2 and earlier) jdbc:sybase:Tds:<HOST>:<PORT> com.sybase.jdbc.SybDriver Sybase (jConnect 5.2) jdbc:sybase:Tds:<HOST>:<PORT> com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybDriver To test your driver once it's installed, try the following code: { Class.forName("Driver name"); Connection con = DriverManager.getConnenction("jdbcurl","username","password"); //other manipulation using jdbc commands } catch(Exception e) { }
Call java.sql.DriverManager.loadDriver("postgresql");.
The JDBC exists so that you can change the underlying driver with just a change of a String, and still be able to execute the same statements on a different type of database. In summary, it was made so that you don't have to redesign your entire application to change database types.
There are four types of JDBC driver:JDBC - ODBC bridgeNative-API driverNetwork-Protocol DriverNative-Protocol DriverSee related link for more information.
JDBC which is short for java database connectivity is used to connect database to a java project . To make connectivity a database driver is required to establish the connection.
-Loading the Driver -Establish a Connection -Execute Statements -Get Resultset -Close the database connection