Java program to connect to Sql Server and running the sample query From Eclipse

Question

package sqlselection;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;

public class Sqlselection 
    {
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");

                String userName = "sa";
                String password = "password";
                String url = "jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433"+";databaseName=AdventureWorks2008R2";
                Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, userName, password);
                Statement s1 = con.createStatement();
                ResultSet rs = s1.executeQuery("SELECT TOP 1 * FROM HumanResources.Employee");
                String[] result = new String[20];
                if(rs!=null){
                    while (rs.next()){
                        for(int i = 0; i <result.length ;i++)
                        {
                            for(int j = 0; j <result.length;j++)
                            {
                                result[j]=rs.getString(i);
                            System.out.println(result[j]);
                        }
                        }
                    }
                }

                //String result = new result[20];

            } catch (Exception e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
    }


}

    enter code here

The Above is my sample program to connect to the Sql server to run the sample select query from eclipse.

I am getting the below error.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
    at sqlselection.Sqlselection.main(Sqlselection.java:13)

i have added the sqljdbc.jar,sqljdbc4.jar to the library. Help to fix this

Answer 1

The problem is with Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver"); this line. The Class qualified name is wrong

It is sqlserver.jdbc not jdbc.sqlserver

Answer 2

you forgotten to add the sqlserver.jar in eclipse external library follow the process to add jar files

1. Right click on your project.
2. click buildpath
3. click configure bulid path
4. click add external jar and then give the path of jar