Connection using JDBC is to slow on windows xp

Question

Hi all!
I'm trying to connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 using the microsoft jdbc driver. I tested this in linux Fedora and the connection is very fast, but in windows xp it takes about 5 seconds.
The drivers are 3 jar files witch I include in the classpath variable : msbase.jar , mssqlserver.jar and msutil.jar
To get the connection i use the following code:
DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver()); _con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:18345;databasename=DBNAME","MYUSER","MYPASS");
Note that the connection is made sucessful, but it takes 5 seconds witch I think it's not a normal time and in linux with the same drivers the connection is made in miliseconds.
I searched a lot about this, but found nothing.
I hope someone can help me.
Thanks in advance.
In forget to say that I am using jdk1.6 and jre 1.6
Edited by: GrEg on Apr 21, 2009 10:59 PM

Answer 1

GrEg wrote:
Hi!
Thanks very much for your answer. In fact I tested connection pooling but the the first connection is also to slow. This is important because I am using threads and wich one needs a connection object.
Now I am using the sqlserver 2005 jdbc driver to connect to sql server 2000 and surprisly is so much faster, it takes about a second to establish the connection.
You mean for the first test you were using the MS 2000 driver?
Simple then - don't use it. That driver was very problematic as reported on this site. Use either the MS driver or the jtds driver instead.