odbc-bridge

Connecting to SQLServer using JDBC-ODBC Bridge

I'm writing an applicationt hat was prototyped on MySQL and is now connecting to an Oracle database. All I had to do to connect to the oracle database (having built up the table structure) was change the connection string. What is the format to connect to a SQL Server DB on another machine? I've read some tutorials which tell you to u...

Creating a custom ODBC driver

At my current job, we're looking to implement our own odbc driver to allow many different applications to be able to connect to our own app as a datasource. Right now we are trying to weigh the options of developing our own driver to the implementation spec, which is massive, or using an SDK that allows for programmers to 'fill in' the d...

Is there an alternative to using sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver ?

I recently migrated an older application we have at work from Java 1.5 to 1.6. I noticed that during the build, I now get a (new) compiler warning: ... DatabaseSession.java:[9,20] sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver is Sun proprietary API and may be removed in a future release So I understand what that means, but is there a well-known alt...

How to access a UniqueIdentifer column from Java's JDBC-ODBC bridge

I'm currently working on a java program that will access an Microsoft SQL Server using the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver provided in the Java distribution. Everything seems to be setup correctly and I can query basic data from the database, but when I try to run a query that gets a UniqueIdentifer field in it, when I do the subsequent Resulet...