


The Microsoft JDBC Driver 9.4 for SQL Server provides mssql-jdbc-9.4.1.jre8.jar, mssql-jdbc-9.4.1.jre11.jar, and mssql-jdbc-9.4.1.jre16.jar class library files. The Microsoft JDBC Driver 10.2 for SQL Server provides mssql-jdbc-10.2.0.jre8.jar, mssql-jdbc-10.2.0.jre11.jar, and mssql-jdbc-10.2.0.jre17.jar class library files. The Microsoft JDBC Driver 11.2 for SQL Server provides mssql-jdbc-11.2.0.jre8.jar, mssql-jdbc-11.2.0.jre11.jar, mssql-jdbc-11.2.0.jre17.jar, and mssql-jdbc-11.2.0.jre18.jar class library files. The Microsoft JDBC Driver 12.2 for SQL Server provides mssql-jdbc-12.2.0.jre8.jar and mssql-jdbc-12.2.0.jre11.jar class library files. The Microsoft JDBC Driver provides different Jars to be used in correspondence with your preferred Java Runtime Environment (JRE) settings, as under: Before you connect to a SQL Server database, SQL Server must first be installed on either your local computer or a server, and the JDBC driver must be installed on your local computer.

This section provides quickstart instructions to make a simple connection to a SQL Server database using the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server.
