JDBC-ODBC Bridge Drivers and Microsoft Access

Are there any good tutorials on setting this up? Forgive me if there is one on this site - I couldn't find it. I just know (from some other sites) that it can be a pain to set up and get working right.

I mean installing and configuring JDBC-ODBC to be
able to connect to Access...I know about JDBC and
it's API. I just need to know how to configure
everything so that I can use the API.If you have a version of windows (at least back to 95) that doesn't have the MS Access ODBC driver and/or doesn't have the ODBC shell then something is wrong with your windows.

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JDBC-ODBC Bridge Performance To MS Access

Hey all, I'm running a Java app that extracts an entire table (set of tables) from Oracle and copies them into Access. The easiest implementation has been to use a DSN-less Type 1 JDBC-ODBC bridge connection to Access, but unfortunately the inserts are taking too long.
I have tried both Statement and PreparedStatement approaches, with both single row and batch updates. Some of the performance times, relative to the computer I am on (PIII 1 gHz with 256 RAM), are as follows:
Via Batch, about 8min, 15 seconds per 10,000 rows.
Via Single Row updates/inserts, about 52 minutes for 45,000 rows.
I've tried alot of varieties with batch, but 10,000 seemed to be the best. The largest table is only 45,000 rows (right now), but has the potential to grow much larger (obviously). This application needs to backup 4 databases, each with N tables (current N=7, but will expand). I'm trying to knock down the times and increase performance, but am not sure what is "reasonable" for Type 1 connections with JDBC. I've seen third party drivers, Type 3, for Access...but don't want to run the middle tier server for filtering request through. I'd rather use Type 4, but can't seem to find any for Access.
Any suggestions? Recommendations? Let me know! Thanks all! :)

Hi,
If its a backup/batch process why are you worrying about performance, its only an offline process :) even if has to be triggered during an OLTP run this task asynchronously.
I dont know why you have chosen java to do this ??? any way prepared statements with non scrollable resultsets will increase you performance better tha scrollable normal statements.
Rajesh

Access MS-Access using JDBC ODBC bridge from Sun AMD64

Hi,
We are trying to configure a communication channel using the JDBC adapter. We are setting the driver to the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver and trying to access an MS Acess database from the PI server(sun amd64). When we set the driver to the JDBC-ODBC bridge, the J2EE engine tries to restart immediately and does not start. The std_server.out contains the following error:
Service com.sap.aii.adapter.jdbc.svc started. (234 ms).
1016 sun.io.CharToByteASCII::convert (370 bytes)
1017 ! com.sap.sql.jdbc.common.CommonPreparedStatement::close (119
bytes)
ld.so.1: jlaunch: fatal: relocation error:
file /usr/j2se/jre/lib/amd64/libJdbcO
dbc.so: symbol SQLAllocEnv: referenced symbol not found
Has anybody been able to configure the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver for MS Access? Also, has anybody used the database vendor(MS) drivers? If so, where are they available.
Thanks in advance
Vipin

Hi
Please go through below links that would be helpful to you
SAP Network Blog: Connecting to MS Access using receiver JDBC Adapter (Without DSN)
/people/sameer.shadab/blog/2005/10/24/connecting-to-ms-access-using-receiver-jdbc-adapter-without-dsn
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/06/01/file-to-jdbc-adapter-using-sap-xi-30
If required Try the following driver. I havent used it but its available.
HXTT Access is such a type 4 driver at http://www.hxtt.net/en/software/access/document.html .
Thanks
Swarup

JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver Suitable?

I'm implementing a web site for a small company, so will be using MS Access for the database.
Will a JDBC-ODBC Bridge driver be suitable?
I ask this as I have heard that JDBC-ODBC Bridge drivers are only suitable for testing purposes - not commercial use.
Cheers

Ideally, you should use a third-party driver in your implementation. Not that there's anything wrong with the JDBC-ODBC Driver, but like you said, Sun never really intended it to be used for mainstream applications. It was developed to serve as a generic driver until third party drivers could be developed and released. Now that there's plenty of good third party drivers out there, the use of the JdbcOdbcDriver is really not recommended. Here's a list of current drivers available for MS Access.
http://servlet.java.sun.com/products/jdbc/drivers/search_results.jsp?jdbc_version=0&vendor_name=&cert_mode=and&jdbc_driver_type_mode=and&dbms=6&dbms_mode=and&features_mode=and&results_per_page=20&submit=Search

JDBC ODBC bridge connections using 2.1.1

Hi,
I have reviewed a lot of postings related to JDBC and third party drivers and understand how to connect to the packaged drivers such as MySQL and MS SQL Server/Sybase. Where I'm stuck is the reference in the Connections help to JDBC. We have a ODBC system DSN that's not part of the existing JDBC drivers. The help implies it's possible to create a JDBC:ODBC bridge connection and that JDBC:ODBC bridge functionality is part of the JDK therefore should not require additional jar files. However, the JDBC tab is not an available connection type by default. I traced the JDBC ODBC bridge to the rt.jar and tried adding that to the third party extensions but that has not resulted in the JDBC tab becoming available.
Is the JDBC tab only available when using commercial JDBC ODBC bridge drivers ?
For all other connections (DB2, TimesTen, Teradata etc) the help is very specific about which jar files you need and any other requirements but the JDBC section it is unclear how you enable JDBC connectivity.
Thanks
Steven
Edited by: slisint on 14-Jan-2011 18:07

We are using the JDBC-ODBC bridge to do a prepared
statement. I have seen other bugs that suggest this
is problematic with older version of JRE, but was
supposedly fixed in later versions.
java.sql.SQLException: General errorIf it is not too late, check the following link:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/GettingStartedTOC.fm.html
Sections 6.1.3 and 8 (especially tables at the end).
I had the same case, and the problem was that the field in the Oracle database was defined as NUMBER(4), witch is equivalent to INTEGER in JDBC types, and function setInt should be used with INTEGER, instead of setLong.
This is explained in sections I mentioned.

How to create db conn for JDBC-ODBC Bridge for MS Access in ADF APP?

Sir,
How to create db conn for JDBC-ODBC Bridge for MS Access in ADF APP?
Regards

Hello Every Body!
I succeeded in getting connect to the ms access database in adf application in jdeveloper as below:
First in control panel to to admin tools and go to data source(odbc) and create system dsn as bellow pic
Then go to jdeveloper resources ide conn and then database and new database conn and then select jdbc-odbc briddge and then give custom jdbc url as bellow pic
Cheers
tanvir

Applets and JDBC-ODBC Bridge

I have the following error when i try to run my program(I have used JFrame instead of JApplet ) :
[Microsoft] [ODBC Driver Manager] Invalid cursor state
I'm using VJ# and i read on oreilly's site that JDBC-ODBC bridge doesn't work with it, so how should i resolve the problem?
could somebody suggest a better and easy-to-use Type 1 driver(which is free)

Closing the statements defeats the purpose of prepared statements with my design. The whole point is to load them at startup and reuse them.
Another driver is an option however where does one get one and are they free?
I have implemented a temporary solution that I found in the archives. I have used a while statement to make sure that I have got to the end of the result set, however a nested if only looks for the first result. I am only retrieving one row from the database so only need the first. Logic says to me that rs.next() must have to evaluate to false. It is a bit messy but it works . . . so far.
L

Setting up and checking JDBC-ODBC bridge

I'm supporting an application that does not use general JDBC drivers but relies on the JDBC-ODBC bridge. Can't currently get a connection to my 10.2 database, and it looks like the problem is that the JDBC-ODBC bridge isn't set up. Any hints on how to do this?
(I originally posted this on the database forum but was told to try here. Odd since my app is HTML and XHTML, and was not developed using JDev).
Regards
Simon

Why do you use the JDBC-ODBC bridge; if the database is Oracle 10? You should connect from Java to Oracle with the API driver or even better with the Oracle JDBC driver.
If the client is not Java there should be no reason the use the bridge.
The Sun JDBC-ODBC bridge is not intented for production.
You can find configuration information in this document:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/bridge.doc.html
Regards Flemming

JDBC-ODBC Bridge to SPSS data files - Result Set Type is not supported

Hello,
As mentioned in the subject I am trying to read SPSS data files using the SPSS 32-Bit data driver, ODBC and the JDBC-ODBC Bridge.
Using this SPSS Driver I manged to read the data directly into an MS-SQL Server using:
SELECT [...] FROM
OPENROWSET(''MSDASQL.1'',''DRIVER={SPSS 32-BIT Data Driver (*.sav)};DBQ=' SomePathWhereTheFilesAre';SERVER=NotTheServer'', ''SELECT 'SomeSPSSColumn' FROM "'SomeSPSSFileNameWithoutExt'"'') AS a
This works fine!
Using Access and an ODBC System DNS works for IMPORTING but NOT for LINKING.
It is even possible to read the data using the very slow SPSS API.
However, when it comes to JDBC-ODBC the below code does only work in part. The driver is loaded successfully, but when it comes to transferring data into the resultset object the error
SQLState: null
Result Set Type is not supported
Vendor: 0
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The official answer from SPSS is to use .Net or to use their implementation with Python in their new version 14.0. But this is obviously not an option when you want to use only Java.
Does anybody have experience with SPSS and JDBC-ODBC??? I have tried the possible ResultSet Types, which I took from:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v8/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/ad/rjvdsprp.htm
and none of them worked.
Thank you in advance for your ideas and input & stay happy!
Here the code without all the rest of the class arround it:
// Module: SimpleSelect.java
// Description: Test program for ODBC API interface. This java application
// will connect to a JDBC driver, issue a select statement
// and display all result columns and rows
// Product: JDBC to ODBC Bridge
// Author: Karl Moss
// Date: February, 1996
// Copyright: 1990-1996 INTERSOLV, Inc.
// This software contains confidential and proprietary
// information of INTERSOLV, Inc.
public static void main1() {
String url   = "jdbc:odbc:SomeSystemDNS";
String query = "SELECT SomeSPSSColumn FROM 'SomeSPSSFileName'";
try {
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    // of the registered drivers will be loaded until
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    // If we were unable to connect, an exception
    // would have been thrown. So, if we get here,
    // we are successfully connected to the URL
    // Check for, and display and warnings generated
    // by the connect.
    checkForWarning (con.getWarnings ());
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    // some information about the connection
    DatabaseMetaData dma = con.getMetaData ();
    System.out.println("\nConnected to " + dma.getURL());
    System.out.println("Driver       " +
      dma.getDriverName());
    System.out.println("Version      " +
      dma.getDriverVersion());
    System.out.println("");
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    ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery (query);
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    rs.close();
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    stmt.close();
    // Close the connection
    con.close();
}

Thank you for your reply StuDerby!
Actually the above script was before, as you suggested, leaving the ResultSetTeype default. This did not work...
I am getting gray hair with SPSS - in terms of connectivity and "integratebility" none of their solutions offered is sufficient from my point of view.
Variable definitions can only be read by the slow API, data can only be read by Python or Microsoft Products... and if you want to combine both you are in big trouble. I can only assume that this is a company strategy to sell their Dimensions Platform to companies versus having companies developping their applications according to business needs.
Thanks again for any furthur suggestions and I hope, that some SPSS Developper will see this post!
Cheers!!

About JDBC ODBC bridge

I'm developing an application using EJBs in a development environment with Sun Application Server, Sql Server and NetBeans IDE 4.1. I'm using entity beans and session beans in my application. But, when I try to connect to database using a Servlet or JSP with the session beans, the connection with database could not be established. This is my problem!!!

First, you probably shouldn't use the JDBC/ODBC bridge. Any serious and many non-serious databases have real drivers. Is there anything but Access that really needs the bridge...? Use the jTds driver (google for it). Or just last week Microsoft beta'ed a new JDBC driver for MSSQL; no idea how good it is. Some smalltalk on that: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=35063
Second, what error do you get?
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- Check port number in connect string.
- Try numeric IP address of server host in connect string, in case name server is hosed.
- Are there any firewalls between client and server blocking the port.
- Check that the db server is running.
- Check that the db server is listening to the port. On the server, try: "telnet localhost the-port-number". Or "netstat -an", there should be a listening entry for the port.
- Try "telnet serverhost the-port-number" from the client, to see if firewalls are blocking it.
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- If "telnet" fails: does it fail immediately or after an obvious timeout? How long is the timeout?
- Does the server respond to "ping serverhost" or "telnet serverhost" or "ssh serverhost"?

JDBC-ODBC Bridge, Swing Components

This program displays information from the Access database Autos.mdb.
Uses the JDBC-ODBC Bridge.
Requires a DSN called Autos pointing to Auto.mdb
I am using the swing components and can't seem to set up my combobox to pull the right data which doesn't display any of the data from the database. I am able to do it using AWT but would like a sleeker look so I am trying to convert. I have made the text bold where I am having the problem. Any insight would be greatful! I am very new to JDBC-ODBC so please go easy on me...
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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     Statement cmdVehicle;
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     JLabel lblModel = new JLabel("                          ");
     JLabel lblYear        = new JLabel("                          ");
     JLabel lblCost      = new JLabel("                          ");
     JLabel lblID      = new JLabel("                              ");
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               add(new JLabel("Year"));
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                         System.err.println("Driver did not load properly");
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I am going to help you out but first I would like to advise you not to do this.
Mixing JDBC and Swing (or any GUI for that matter) like this is not the preferred way to proceed. If you want to learn JDBC then command line/shell is fine. If you want to learn Swing learn Swing. When you want to use the two together learn about MVC first.
I am advising you to do this because nobody writes code like this (mixing GUI and database and business logic all in one class). So if you want real world training MVC should be what you look at next.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller for more
As near as I can tell your problem is mostly just because you aren't using the combo box correctly. Try
String strManufName = lstManuf.getSelectedItem().toString();it's a bit of a hack but will work for your purposes. What you need in the eend is to use the methods JComboxBox has like getSelectedItem() or getSelectedIndex().
See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/combobox.html for more.
Some other comments.
1) It's nice to see you aren't just swallowing exceptions but some of them are kind of pointless if you just continue on. Like here
try
//Load the MicroSoft drivers
Class.forName ("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
catch (ClassNotFoundException err)
//No drivers found
System.err.println("Driver did not load properly");
}And then you continue on with the method. What for? There's no point since the driver didn't load.
2) Please look into the use of PreparedStatements. Very good things those. You can use them in place of your Statements. They are safer but for your purposes help you by you not having to worry about the formatting of data you bind to queries. For example what happens if a manufacturer name contains a ' (single quote) ? Trouble that's what. PreparedStatements make that problem go away.
3) Don't use SELECT *. It is always good practice to put the names of the columns you are selecting. This prevents your code from breaking if the order of the columns should change in any way.

Connecting remote FoxPro dbf file using jdbc odbc bridge driver?

Hi all,
I am new to this topic, (even I read some threads)
I need to access some FoxPro tables (dbf files) and select some data and save to an oracle table. what is the best method to do this?
If I use java as development tool. which other drivers or methods to use beside jdbc-odbc driver?
I read from this link but I didn't understand.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/faq.html#5
"5. How can I use the JDBC API to access a desktop database like Microsoft Access over the network?
Most desktop databases currently require a JDBC solution that uses ODBC underneath. This is because the vendors of these database products haven't implemented all-Java JDBC drivers.
The best approach is to use a commercial JDBC driver that supports ODBC and the database you want to use. See the JDBC drivers page for a list of available JDBC drivers.
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"

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Has anyone experienced problems using the latest Oracle RDB
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We have been using the Oracle ODBC Driver for RDB (2.10.17)
successfully on NT, but it is not supported on W2K. The new
drivers work fine for Access etc., but fail with the bridge.
Specifically, you can step thru a result set, but getObject()
returns null for all fields.
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This forum is for general suggestions and feedback about the OTN
site. For technical question about an Oracle product, you can
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Hi, I am running SQL Developer 2.1.1 and would like to to access databases other than those formally supported.
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Googling, and searching on this forum, implies that I should install the appropriate JDBC driver for the Bridge, list it on the third party JDBC drivers Preferences page, and that a 'Create Connection' dialog JDBC tab would then appear on restarting SQL Developer, as happens when you install the supported MySQL JDBC driver, for example.
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Edited by: 845622 on Mar 18, 2011 10:59 AM - Clarified - sorry

The additional connection types only appear for supported databases.
I haven't tried this, but I vaguely remember some discussions from a long time ago.
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MS SQL Server 7 thru JDBC:ODBC bridge

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I am trying to access MS SQL server 7 thru JDBC ODBC bridge. I am finding my varchar data is being truncated to 255 characters. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Any body know of a good type 4 jdbc driver for SQL
Server 7. There is one for SQL server 2000
downloadable from micrsoft site, but does it work for
sql server 7 too ?Older betas of this driver suported SQL Server 7, but I believe the plan is to specifically remove that capability in its final release.
My biased opinion would be to try the driver from DataDirect. http://www.ddtek.com Its their driver (an older version) that Microsoft has licensed for MS SQl 2000.
Getting it from DataDirect has a couple obvious advantages:
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2. It will continue to Support MS SQL 7
3. It's suported by 24/7 phone,email and web tech support.
4. And, early this week, you should be able to get the latest 3.0 release which promises to be even more robust, in addition to conforming to the new specs.
5. its not free, but then again- you get what you pay for...

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