FreeTDS Development Group

[Stefan Bodewig <bodewig AT bost.de>]

Tom Samplonius <tom AT sdf.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Fabien Roy wrote:
> 
>> Does Microsoft publishes a JDBC adaptor for Microsoft SQL?
> 
>   No.  This has created the booming market for third party type 4
>   JDBC drivers for MS-SQL.  Besides the FreeTDS JDBC driver, there
>   are at least four other competitors out there.  The Weblogic
>   driver is quite popular, but rather expensive.

Try <http://industry.java.sun.com/products/jdbc/drivers>. Specifying
MS SQL Server and Type 4 will give you 15 results - with most vendors
listed twice, once for JDBC 1 and once for 2.

AFAIK FreeTDS is the only free (as in "free beer" this time) one - and
when I tried to evaluate other options about a year ago, most other
drivers were quite expensive.

Stefan