Microsoft SQL Server JDBC 3.0 and SQL Azure

Dear SQL Server and SQL Azure developers and users:

We are very pleased to announce the availability of an updated version of Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 supporting Microsoft SQL Azure database:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae924066-2946-40a7-93c6-c7e83f54072f&displaylang=en

This updated version supersedes the release version of SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 and also addresses an issue with JDBC API getSchemas. For further information on getSchema issue, please refer to https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2504052 and the corresponding release notes.

Let us know how we’re doing and give us your feedback through the Microsoft SQL Server Data Access Forum, Microsoft Connect, or this blog.

The previous release version of Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 is available here for reference:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a737000d-68d0-4531-b65d-da0f2a735707&displaylang=en

If you do not plan to connect to SQL Azure or are not impacted by getSChema issue, you can continue to use the previous release of Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0

Thank you

Amina Saify [SQL Server]