Re: JDBC Drivers

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:48 -0600, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
>  Hello all,
> 
> I am new to the list.
> 
> I have a server that will be running apache, tomcat, and jdk 1.4, the
> application requires JDBC drivers to connect to an MSSQL 2000 database.
> I know I know management decision to go with MSSQL and not Oracle on
> Linux, anyhow can anyone give me some good suggestions on what JDBC
> drivers would be best to use?  We are looking to get some good quality
> drivers since this will be a very important production server, we
> welcome suggestions to both open sourced or commercially available
> drivers.

FreeTDS is the primary one in the open source arena:

	http://www.freetds.org/

Another is UnixODBC at http://www.unixodbc.com/.  For Java, look at jTDS
at http://jtds.sourceforge.net/

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