John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

Software architects face an important technical problem when they must decide how to best interact with backend database systems. The decision often comes down to the Hibernate vs. JDBC debate, as the ...

The SQL Server 2005 database is available in various editions: Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Developer, and Mobile. The Enterprise Edition is for enterprise-level applications that require ...

To access a database management system (DBMS) in Java, you need a JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) driver. You may write such drivers, which range from types 1 to 4, in pure Java or a combination of ...

This release of the JDBC Driver is JDBC 3.0 compliant, Microsoft says, and it runs on the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.4 and higher. The software giant says that it has been tested against all ...