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A: One of the great strengths of the JDBC API is that the Java code required to load and use a database driver from one vendor is the same as that for any other. The key differences between one vendor's driver and another will be the class name of the driver, and the JDBC URL used to identify it through the DriverManager class. Both of these variables should be set in the application's configuration properties rather than hard coded Java statements. Provided the necessary database driver class packages are available on the application's classpath, the runtime system will be able to load and the run the driver classes.
For Microsoft SQLServer, the database driver class name is com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver, the connection URL has the following scheme:
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