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Asked: 2026-05-20T20:59:58+00:00

I am having trouble writing the database URL for a SQL Server 2005 database

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I am having trouble writing the database URL for a SQL Server 2005 database when creating a data source for a BIRT report. The URL I have written looks like this:

jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://host:port;databasename=name;user=userName;password=yourPwd

I placed the sqljdbc.jar (jdbc 3.0) in the following location:

eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc_2.6.1.v20100909/drivers

When I press the “Test Connection” button in the “Edit Data Source” dialog I get the following error:

The selected driver cannot parse the given url.

Can you give me any hints on how to solve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    As you probably already know, the URL is incorrect. I haven’t worked with Java for a while now, but your URL looks a lot like a connection string in .Net. However, a connection string would also contain the instance name (probably SQLEXPRESS) and possibly the authentication method.

    A quick Google search turned up this, a page on MSDN that deals with building that connection URL of yours. Hopefully, it will help.

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