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The one from MS, that comes with it is not ready for prime time. I have
not worked with people using the one from Sun, and did not know that there
was one.<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 02-26 13:33, Grant Johnson wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">The JDBC connection for MSSQL is not ready for prime time, and <br>the ODBC is really just a pipeline to another machine (maybe even the <br>machine that the DB server is running on) to an ODBC connection on that <br>machine which must be Windows.<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>Not true. There are several Type 4 JDBC (some even implementing JDBC 2.0 spec)<br>drivers available for MS SQL Server. Some of the newer ones (including<br>M$'s own) are in beta, of course, and some only implement JDBC 2.0<br>partially. But not all need ODBC by any extent...<br><br>As for not being ready for prime time, I have been on at least four projects<br>where the reference implementation (alas, ODBC) driver from Sun for MS SQL<br>Server was used...all projects are in production as we speak. They run from<br>Windows, but it's possible to get the ODBC client piece onto *nix, no?<br><br></pre>
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