Free tds jdbc driver with Sybase ASA 6

Craig Spannring Craig.Spannring at aedinc.net
Fri Aug 11 13:12:30 EDT 2000


Helen Dale writes:
 > I have been trying to connect to my ASA from a Java appli but get an SQL 
 > Exception. What am I doing wrong? Can any one help me please?
 > 
 > This is what comes out
 > 
 > DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:freetds:sybase://orion/infodata")


Since Sybase doesn't really have a strongly suggested port like
SQLServer does, you almost always need to specify the port number in
the connection string for Sybase.  For instance-

   DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc:freetds:sybase://orion:1500/infodata");



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