The Java Developers Almanac 1.4

e237. Connecting to a SQLServer Database

    Connection connection = null;
    try {
        String driverName = "com.jnetdirect.jsql.JSQLDriver"; // NetDirect JDBC driver
        String serverName = "127.0.0.1";
        String portNumber = "1433";
        String mydatabase = serverName + ":" + portNumber;
        String url = "jdbc:JSQLConnect://" + mydatabase; // a JDBC url
        String username = "username";
        String password = "password";
    
        // Load the JDBC driver
        Class.forName(driverName);
    
        // Create a connection to the database
        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        // Could not find the database driver
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        // Could not connect to the database
    }

Related Examples

e235. Connecting to an Oracle Database
e236. Connecting to a MySQL Database
e238. Listing All Available Parameters for Creating a JDBC Connection
e239. Determining If a Database Supports Transactions
e240. Committing and Rolling Back Updates to a Database
e241. Handling a SQL Exception
e242. Determining If a SQL Warning Occurred
e243. Getting the Driver of a Connection
e244. Setting the Number of Rows to Prefetch When Executing a SQL Query

See also: Batching    Database Meta Data    Deleting Data    Drivers    Importing and Exporting    Inserting and Updating Data    Oracle OBJECTs    Oracle VARRAYs    Procedures and Functions    Retrieving Data    Scrollable Result Sets    Tables    Updatable Result Sets

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