Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server Team Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/feed.xml Announcement and Discussions related to the Microsoft JDBC driver for SQL Server Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:26:52 GMT en-US hourly 1 We have moved! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/we-have-moved Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:26:52 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1345 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SQL-Server/bg-p/SQLServer/label-name/SQLServerDrivers]]> We are moving! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/we-are-moving Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:27:28 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1335 SQL Server and Azure SQL Database blogs on the Microsoft TechCommunity website. Once the migration is complete, we will post the new URL along with instructions for how to navigate the new blog and update your RSS feeds. Until then, feel free to keep reading here, but keep in mind that any comments that are added may not make it over to the new blog. You will be able to re-post them there once we are live. Stay tuned and see you on the new site soon!]]> Announcing the JDBC Driver 7.2 RTW! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/announcing-the-jdbc-driver-7-2-rtw Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:11:02 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1315 Added
  • Added APIs for DataSourceFactory and OSGI Framework #700
  • Added support for OffsetDateTime to be passed as 'type' in ResultSet.getObject() #830
  • Added support for Active Directory MSI Authentication #838
  • Added new APIs to retrieve SQL Server error information received with SQLServerException #905
  • Added a new SQLServerMetaData constructor for string values of length greater than 4000 #876
  • Added support for JDK 11 #824 #837 #807
  • Updated SQL keywords in DatabaseMetaData #829
  • Improvements in DatabaseMetadata to prevent Statement leaks and enhance Statement caching #806
  • Added streaming capabilities for Clob.getAsciiStream() #799

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed issue with ThreadPoolExecutor thread preventing JVM from exiting #944
  • Fixed Timestamp comparison with "Thai" locale in DataTypesTest #941
  • Fixed issue with java.time.OffsetDateTime value sent to the server being affected by the default timezone #831
  • Fixed SSL certificate validation to respect wildcards #836
  • Fixed Bulk Copy for batch insert operation to not error out against specific datatypes #912
  • Fixed an issue with Geography.point() having coordinates reversed #853
  • Fixed an issue with setAutoCommit() leaving a transaction open when running against Azure SQL Data Warehouse #881
  • Fixed potential NullPointerException in logException() #844
  • Fixed useBulkCopyForBatchInserts API to respect Statement timeout value #817
  • Fixed a bug where calling length() after obtaining a stream would close the stream for Clobs/NClobs #799
  • Fixed Clob/NClob encoding issues #799
  • Fixed issues in Bulk Copy exception handling #801
  • Fixed issues with apostrophe being passed in table name #780
  • Fixed statement leaks and improved exception handling in SQLServerParameterMetadata #780

Changed

  • Changed timeout request handling implementation to use SharedTimer #920
  • Fixed synchronization on a non-final field #860
  • Changed query timeout logic to use a single thread #842
  • Removed populating Lobs when calling ResultSet.wasNull() #875
  • Improved retry logic for intermittent TLS1.2 issue when establishing a connection #882
  • Removed illegal reflection access in Kerberos Authentication #839
  • Updated Clobs to use StandardCharsets.US_ASCII instead of hard-coded string #855
  • Changed error message to be thrown when data out of range for DECIMAL/NUMERIC types #796
Getting the latest release The latest bits are available on the Microsoft Download Center, GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC 7.2 RTW driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project (choose .jre8 or .jre11 for your required Java version). 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.2.0.jre11</version>
</dependency>
Help us improve the JDBC Driver by taking our survey, filing issues on GitHub or contributing to the project. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server.
David Engel
]]> Early technical preview of JDBC 7.1.4 for SQL Server released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/early-technical-preview-of-jdbc-7-1-4-for-sql-server-released Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:08:39 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1305 GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the new additions to the project, changes made, and issues fixed.

Added

  • Added APIs for DataSourceFactory and OSGI Framework #700
  • Added support for OffsetDateTime to be passed as 'type' in ResultSet.getObject() #830
  • Added support for Active Directory MSI Authentication #838
  • Added more datatype tests to JUnit test suite #878 #916
  • Added an option to perform JUnit testing against Azure Data Warehouse #903
  • Added new APIs to retrieve SQL Server error information received with SQLServerException #905

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed issue with java.time.OffsetDateTime value sent to the server being affected by the default timezone #831
  • Fixed SSL certificate validation to respect wildcards #836
  • Fixed Bulk Copy for batch insert operation to not error out against specific datatypes #912

Changed

  • Fixed synchronization on a non-final field #860
  • Removed hardcoded error messages from test file #904
  • Updated Issue and Pull Request templates #906
  • Updated JUnit tests by closing all resources consistently and updated Maven dependency versions to latest #919
Getting the Preview The latest bits are available on our GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC preview driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project. Java 8: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.4.jre8-preview</version>
</dependency>
Java 11: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.4.jre11-preview</version>
</dependency>
We provide limited support while in preview. Should you run into any issues, please file an issue on our GitHub Issues page. As always, we welcome contributions of any kind. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the project thus far. For feature requests, please file an issue on the GitHub Issues page to help us track and follow-up directly. We would also appreciate if you could take this survey to help us continue to improve the JDBC Driver. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server. David Engel]]> Early technical preview of JDBC 7.1.3 for SQL Server released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/early-technical-preview-of-jdbc-7-1-3-for-sql-server-released Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:21:52 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1295 GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the new additions to the project, changes made, and issues fixed.

Added

  • Added a new SQLServerMetaData constructor for string values of length greater than 4000 #876

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed an issue with Geography.point() having coordinates reversed #853
  • Fixed intermittent test failures #854 #862 #888
  • Fixed an issue with setAutoCommit() leaving a transaction open when running against Azure SQL Data Warehouse #881

Changed

  • Changed query timeout logic to use a single thread #842
  • Code cleanup #857 #873
  • Removed populating Lobs when calling ResultSet.wasNull() #875
  • Improved retry logic for intermittent TLS1.2 issue when establishing a connection #882
Getting the Preview The latest bits are available on our GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC preview driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project. Java 8: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.3.jre8-preview</version>
</dependency>
Java 11: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.3.jre11-preview</version>
</dependency>
We provide limited support while in preview. Should you run into any issues, please file an issue on our GitHub Issues page. As always, we welcome contributions of any kind. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the project thus far. For feature requests, please file an issue on the GitHub Issues page to help us track and follow-up directly. We would also appreciate if you could take this survey to help us continue to improve the JDBC Driver. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server. David Engel]]> Early technical preview of JDBC 7.1.2 for SQL Server released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/early-technical-preview-of-jdbc-7-1-2-for-sql-server-released Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:32:50 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1285 GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the new additions to the project, changes made, and issues fixed.

Added

  • Added support for JDK 11 #824 #837 #807
  • Updated SQL keywords in DatabaseMetaData #829
  • Improvements in DatabaseMetadata to prevent Statement leaks and enhance Statement caching #806

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed slf4j warning message in tests #841
  • Fixed potential NullPointerException in logException() #844
  • Fixed intermittent failures in JUnit - LobsTest #827
  • Fixed useBulkCopyForBatchInserts API to respect Statement timeout value #817

Changed

  • Updated JUnit tests to remove hard-coded names #809
  • Removed illegal reflection access in Kerberos Authentication #839
  • Enabled non-running JUnit tests #847
  • Updated Clobs to use StandardCharsets.US_ASCII instead of hard-coded string #855
  • Code cleanup #821 #825
Getting the Preview The latest bits are available on our GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC preview driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project. Java 8: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.2.jre8-preview</version>
</dependency>
Java 11: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.2.jre11-preview</version>
</dependency>
We provide limited support while in preview. Should you run into any issues, please file an issue on our GitHub Issues page. As always, we welcome contributions of any kind. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the project thus far. For feature requests, please file an issue on the GitHub Issues page to help us track and follow-up directly. We would also appreciate if you could take this survey to help us continue to improve the JDBC Driver. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server. David Engel]]> Early technical preview of JDBC 7.1.1 for SQL Server released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/early-technical-preview-of-jdbc-7-1-1-for-sql-server-released Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:46:16 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1275 GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the new additions to the project, changes made, and issues fixed.

Added

  • Added streaming capabilities for Clob.getAsciiStream() #799

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed a bug where calling length() after obtaining a stream would close the stream for Clobs/NClobs #799
  • Fixed Clob/NClob encoding issues #799
  • Fixed issues in Bulk Copy exception handling #801
  • Fixed closeable resource leaks in Junit tests #797
  • Fixed issues with apostrophe being passed in table name #780
  • Fixed statement leaks and improved exception handling in SQLServerParameterMetadata #780

Changed

  • Changed error message to be thrown when data out of range for DECIMAL/NUMERIC types #796
Getting the Preview The latest bits are available on our GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC preview driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project. Java 8: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.1.jre8-preview</version>
</dependency>
Java 10: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.1.jre10-preview</version>
</dependency>
We provide limited support while in preview. Should you run into any issues, please file an issue on our GitHub Issues page. As always, we welcome contributions of any kind. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the project thus far. For feature requests, please file an issue on the GitHub Issues page to help us track and follow-up directly. We would also appreciate if you could take this survey to help us continue to improve the JDBC Driver. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server. David Engel]]> Early technical preview of JDBC 7.1.0 for SQL Server released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/early-technical-preview-of-jdbc-7-1-0-for-sql-server-released Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:39:50 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1265 GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the new additions to the project, changes made, and issues fixed.

Added

  • Added support for LocalDate, LocalTime and LocalDateTime to be passed as 'type' in ResultSet.getObject() #749
  • Added support to read SQL Warnings after ResultSet is read completely #785

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed Javadoc warnings and removed obselete HTML tags from Javadocs #786
  • Fixed random JUnit failures in framework tests #762

Changed

  • Improved performance of readLong() function by unrolling loop and using bitwise operators instead of additions #763
  • Removed logging logic which caused performance degradation in AE #773
Getting the Preview The latest bits are available on our GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC preview driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project. Java 8: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.0.jre8-preview</version>
</dependency>
Java 10: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.0.jre10-preview</version>
</dependency>
We provide limited support while in preview. Should you run into any issues, please file an issue on our GitHub Issues page. As always, we welcome contributions of any kind. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the project thus far. For feature requests, please file an issue on the GitHub Issues page to help us track and follow-up directly. We would also appreciate if you could take this survey to help us continue to improve the JDBC Driver. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server. David Engel]]> Announcing the JDBC Driver 7.0 RTW! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/announcing-the-jdbc-driver-7-0-rtw Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:32:09 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1255 Added
  • Added new connection property "useBulkCopyForBatchInsert" to enable Bulk Copy API support for batch insert operation (Azure SQL Data Warehouse specific) #686
  • Added setUseBulkCopyForBatchInsert() to request boundary declaration APIs #739
  • Added support for spatial datatypes #642
  • Added support for JDK 10 for both Maven and Gradle #691
  • Added 'Automatic-Module-Name' manifest entry to jre10 Jar, allowing JDK 10 users to access driver module 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc' #732
  • Added implementation for Boundary method APIs on Connection interface introduced with Java 9 #708
  • Added new connection property "cancelQueryTimeout" to cancel QueryTimeout on Connection and Statement #674
  • Added removed constructor back to AKV Provider which supports authentication with a customized method to fetch accessToken #675
  • Added support for "Data Classification Specifications" on fetched resultsets #709
  • Added support for UTF-8 feature extension #722

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed policheck issue with 'Country' keyword #745
  • Fixed issues reported by static analysis tools (SonarQube, Fortify) #747
  • Fixed blobs becoming unavailable when the Result Set cursor moves or the Result Set closes #595
  • Fixed an issue when attempting to insert an empty or null value into an encrypted column #632
  • Fixed a misleading error message thrown by the driver when a user doesn't have execute permissions #635
  • Fixed statements throwing SQLServerException instead of java.sql.SQLTimeoutException when the query times out #641
  • Fixed an issue where ResultSetMetadata returned incorrect columnType for Geometry and Geography data types #657
  • Fixed server side CPU Affinity problems caused by uneven connection distribution across NUMA Nodes when multiSubnetFailover is true #662
  • Fixed an issue where Driver wasn't parsing TDS Packets completely to capture exceptions raised inside executed stored procedures #664
  • Fixed an issue where driver throws exception when using setMaxRows() followed by query execution when SHOWPLAN_TEXT is ON #666
  • Improved performance degradation while maintaining JDBC compliance with results from sp_fkeys #677
  • Fixed an issue where ResultSetMetaData instances created by a ResultSet that has been closed were not persisting #685
  • Fixed an issue with PreparedStatement.setBigDecimal when no scale is passed #684
  • Fixed an issue with Clobs/NClobs not persisting after ResultSet/Connection closes #682
  • Fixed the driver disposing user created credentials when using Kerberos Constrained Delegation #636
  • Fixed an issue with HostnameInCertificate when redirected while connected to Azure #644
  • Fixed an intermittent issue with Prepared Statement handle not found #648
  • Fixed a conflict with JDBC Compliance where the driver was returning marked columns as SS_IS_COMPUTED instead of IS_GENERATED #695
  • Fixed maven build warnings and deprecated Java API warnings #701
  • Fixed some Javadoc related warnings #702
  • Fixed issue with escaping catalog name when retrieving from database metadata #718
  • Fixed issue with tests requiring additional dependencies #729

Changed

  • Reformatted code and updated mssql-jdbc-formatter #742
  • Changed Sha1HashKey to CityHash128Key to improve performance when generating PreparedStatement handle and metadata cache keys #717
  • Changed order of logic for checking the condition for using Bulk Copy API #736
  • Changed collation name in UTF8SupportTest #741
  • Changed scope of unwanted Public APIs #757
  • Changed behavior of Bulk Copy API for batch inserts to disallow non-parameterized queries #756
  • Changed APIs and JavaDocs for Spatial Datatypes #752
  • Improved Javadoc comments in driver #754, #760
  • Unit tests now use SQLException in most cases instead of SQLServerException.
  • Removed unused imports which forced users to import the ADAL4J library #652
  • Updated the samples to be usable with Eclipse directly, and updated the driver version used by the samples to 6.4.0.jre9 #679
  • Updated Gradle script for building JDBC Driver #689
  • Updated Maven dependencies for test suite #676
  • Updated multiple Maven dependency and plugin versions #688
  • Made driver default compliant to JDBC 4.2 specifications #711
  • Updated ADAL4J dependency version to 1.6.0 #711
  • Cleaned up socket handling implementation to generalize functionality for different JVMs and simplified the logic for single address case #663
Getting the latest release The latest bits are available on the Microsoft Download Center, GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC 7.0 RTW driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project (choose .jre8 or .jre10 for your required Java version). 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0.jre10</version>
</dependency>
Help us improve the JDBC Driver by taking our survey, filing issues on GitHub or contributing to the project. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server.
David Engel
]]> Early technical preview of JDBC 6.5.4 for SQL Server released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jdbcteam/early-technical-preview-of-jdbc-6-5-4-for-sql-server-released Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:32:01 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jdbcteam/?p=1235 GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the new additions to the project, changes made, and issues fixed.

Added

  • Added new connection property "useBulkCopyForBatchInsert" to enable Bulk Copy API support for batch insert operation #686
  • Added implementation for Java 9 introduced Boundary method APIs on Connection interface #708
  • Added support for "Data Classification Specifications" on fetched resultsets #709
  • Added support for UTF-8 feature extension #722

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed issue with escaping catalog name when retrieving from database metadata #718
  • Fixed issue with tests requiring additional dependencies #729

Changed

  • Made driver default compliant to JDBC 4.2 specifications #711
  • Updated ADAL4J dependency version to 1.6.0 #711
  • Cleaned up socket handling implementation to generalize functionality for different JVMs and simplified the logic for single address case #663
Getting the Preview The latest bits are available on our GitHub repository and Maven Central. Add the JDBC preview driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project. Java 8: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>6.5.4.jre8-preview</version>
</dependency>
Java 10: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>6.5.4.jre10-preview</version>
</dependency>
We provide limited support while in preview. Should you run into any issues, please file an issue on our GitHub Issues page. As always, we welcome contributions of any kind. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the project thus far. For feature requests, please file an issue on the GitHub Issues page to help us track and follow-up directly. We would also appreciate if you could take this survey to help us continue to improve the JDBC Driver. Please also check out our tutorials to get started with developing apps in your programming language of choice and SQL Server. David Engel]]>