MS SQL Server 2005 and JDBC

Question

Hi friends
I am new in Java and for the first time I want to write a program to connect to my database on MS SQL Server 2005 to retreive data. I read the tutorial, but I couldn't find there any information about the proper driver name to connect to a SQL Server database ;(
Could you please let me know what I should write as DriverManager.getConnection(????) to make the connection?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I really thank you for your patience and accompanying me. At last I found what the problem was! It was about MS SQL Server 2005 TCP/IP connection!!!! It's disable by default, so it didn't let my java program to login. I enabled it and restart all the SQL services again. But when I executed the program another error appeared: This driver doesn't let you to have integrated secuirty .So I had to bring the 'sa' user id and its password to login to MS SQL Server. And this time it worked!! You are right, I had to cheange the connection URL to bring the port in it.
I am writing a system for a small company in java, and I installed the MS SQL Server 2005 myself and I should manage all the problems myself! So I didn't have anyone to help me but you dear friends.
I really appreciate all your valuable advice.
Now the final code is:
import java.sql.*;
public class DBtest {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          // Create a variable for the connection string.
          //String connectionUrl = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=Northwind;integratedSecurity=true;";
          String connectionUrl = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost;databaseName=Northwind;integratedSecurity=true;";
          // Declare the JDBC objects.
          Connection con = null;
          Statement stmt = null;
          ResultSet rs = null;
             try {
                  // Establish the connection.
                      Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");
                      con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl);
                      // Create and execute an SQL statement that returns some data.
                      String SQL = "SELECT city,country FROM customers";
                      stmt = con.createStatement();
                      rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL);
                      // Iterate through the data in the result set and display it.
                      while (rs.next()) {
                           System.out.println(rs.getString(0) + " " + rs.getString(1));
          // Handle any errors that may have occurred.
          catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          finally {
               if (rs != null) try { rs.close(); } catch(Exception e) {}
                   if (stmt != null) try { stmt.close(); } catch(Exception e) {}
                   if (con != null) try { con.close(); } catch(Exception e) {}
}