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After upgrading to 12.3, I can no longer connect to an MS SQL Server using OpenSQLConnection. Apparently due to some problem with Java(?). I tried to reinstall JRE 8, but no change.

DatabaseExplorer[] gives "Error: JDBC::error" on the connect page.

Any idea how to approach this, what to try?

Output from failed OpenSQLConnection

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  • $\begingroup$ Is this a JDBC driver you set up yourself or one that came packaged with MMA? I don't know the details exactly, but I think it's possible that DatabaseLink has it's own JRE packaged with MMA, so the JRE you have installed may not be picked up. $\endgroup$
    – Sjoerd Smit
    Aug 19, 2021 at 15:53
  • $\begingroup$ I am using similar code on version 12.1. I'll upgrade one of my machines to 12.3 and see if it still works. $\endgroup$
    – Rudy Potter
    Aug 20, 2021 at 19:49
  • $\begingroup$ I updated to 12.3 and now my SQL code does not work on that computer. I even tried the suggestion from mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41431/… but it didn't help. $\endgroup$
    – Rudy Potter
    Aug 20, 2021 at 20:09
  • $\begingroup$ @SjoerdSmit It’s the included driver. When my code didn’t work, I tried installing JRE 8, with no change in result. Could the driver be faulty, cf Rudy Potter”s experience? $\endgroup$
    – HJensen
    Aug 22, 2021 at 7:05
  • $\begingroup$ I just tried to revert to MMA 12.2 and here I have no problem with my code above! Any suggestions where to look for differences? $\endgroup$
    – HJensen
    Aug 22, 2021 at 13:37

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I received the following from Wolfram and it worked for me:

As a workaround, please try the following:

  1. Download Microsoft mssql jdbc driver zip fie from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/jdbc/download-microsoft-jdbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15#download
  2. Unzip the driver
  3. Copy mssql-jdbc-9.4.0.jre11.jar to FileNameJoin[{$InstallationDirectory, "SystemFiles", "Links", "DatabaseLink", "Java"}]

Then connect to mssql database as follows:

In[1]:= Needs["DatabaseLink`"]
In[2]:= con4 = OpenSQLConnection[ JDBC["com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver", "jdbc:sqlserver://" <> "host" ], "Catalog" ->"dbname", "Username" ->"username", "Password" ->"password" ]
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  • $\begingroup$ Forgot to mark this as "solved", i.e. the workaround worked. The basic issue was resolved in version 13. $\endgroup$
    – HJensen
    Mar 6 at 19:48

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