Setting up maven dependency for SQL Server

Question

I am developing a portlet where I have Hibernate access to SQL Server database. I set up maven dependencies for it and try to find out SQL Server connector

Answer 1

Answer for the "new" and "cool" Microsoft.

Yay, SQL Server driver now under MIT license on

• GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/mssql-jdbc
• Maven Central: http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cmssql-jdbc

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>6.1.0.jre8</version>
</dependency>

Answer for the "old" Microsoft:

For my use-case (integration testing) it was sufficient to use a system scope for the JDBC driver's dependency as such:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>sqljdbc4</artifactId>
    <version>3.0</version>
    <scope>system</scope>
    <systemPath>${basedir}/lib/sqljdbc4.jar</systemPath>
    <optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

That way, I could put the JDBC driver into local version control. No need to have each developer manually set stuff up in their own repositories.

I took inspiration from this answer to another Stack Overflow question and I've also blogged about it here.

Answer 2

I believe you are looking for the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/aa937724