
I wanted to create a web application which connected to SQL server. Guys sort it out – it should not be that much of an issue. It’s a bit of a nuisance that Microsoft and Oracle do not publish their jar files for database connections in Maven central. Similarly, the advice below only makes sense if you have ZERO access to an artefact repository that you could just upload your driver into. Perhaps required if you’re fixed to an old version of the server or driver. The advice below relates to the use of driver versions not presently on maven central. One day they may even make that driver comply with the entirety of the JDBC spec! Microsoft have done the decent thing and provided their JDBC driver via maven. The following post is now THANKFULLY obsolete.
