Setup jdbc to microsoft sql

Question

anyone know why i keep getting "the requested instance is invalid ....." when trying to setup a datasouce to a named instance of Microsoft SQL?
below are my settings
URL: jdbc:bea qlserver://[server name]:[port];
Driver Class name: weblogic.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
Properties:
user=testuser
portNumber=1433
databaseName=TEST
serverName=[server name]\\[instance name]
Thanks
Keith

Answer 1

Try this standalone program, with the weblogic classpath...
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class ddms
public static void main(String argv[])
throws Exception
Connection c = null;
try
java.util.Properties props = new java.util.Properties();
props.put("user", "whatever");
props.put("password", "whatever");
Driver d =
(Driver)Class.forName("weblogic.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver").newInstance();
c = d.connect("YOUR URL", props);
DatabaseMetaData dd = c.getMetaData();
System.out.println("Driver version is " + dd.getDriverVersion() );
System.out.println("Database version is " + dd.getDatabaseProductVersion() );
catch (Exception e)
{ e.printStackTrace(); }
finally
{ try {c.close();}catch (Exception e){}
}