JDBC-ODBC - SQL Server and Driver Info

This section describes how to get some basic information about the database server and the JDBC driver information through the DatabaseMetaData object.

If you want to know the database server name and version, or the JDBC driver name and version, you can get them through the DatabaseMetaData object as shown in the following sample program:

/* OdbcSqlServerDatabaseInfo.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
public class OdbcSqlServerDatabaseInfo {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {
      Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
      con = DriverManager.getConnection(
        "jdbc:odbc:SQL_SERVER;user=sa;password=HerongYang");

// Database and driver info
      DatabaseMetaData meta = con.getMetaData();
      System.out.println("Server name: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductName());
      System.out.println("Server version: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductVersion());
      System.out.println("Driver name: "
        + meta.getDriverName());
      System.out.println("Driver version: "
        + meta.getDriverVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC major version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMajorVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC minor version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMinorVersion());

      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println("Exception: "+e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}

I got the following output from this program:

Server name: Microsoft SQL Server
Server version: 09.00.1399
Driver name: JDBC-ODBC Bridge (SQLSRV32.DLL)
Driver version: 2.0001 (03.85.1117)
JDBC major version: 2
JDBC minor version: 0

The output confirms that the version the my SQL Server is 09.00.1399 (2005).

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction

 JDK (Java SE) Installation

 Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition

 Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - Query Statements and Result Sets

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DatabaseMetaData Object

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DDL Statements

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DML Statements

 SQL Server - PreparedStatement

 SQL Server CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 SQL Server BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Using Connection Pool with JDBC

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - Flat Text Files

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - MS Access

JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - MS SQL Server

 JDBC-ODBC - Configuring SQL Server for TCP/IP Connection

 JDBC-ODBC - Creating DSN for SQL Server 2005

 JDBC-ODBC - Connecting to SQL Server 2005

JDBC-ODBC - SQL Server and Driver Info

 JDBC-ODBC - Setting Current Database

 JDBC-ODBC - Looping through ResultSet

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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