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Use

To connect your Java application to a database and to open a database session, you can use the java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection method of the Java platform. This method supplies a Connection object that is connected to the database.

Note

Alternatively, you can use the com.sap.dbtech.jdbcext.DataSourceSapDB class.

You can find more detailed information in the documentation for the Java platform at http://java.sun.comInformation published on non-SAP site

Prerequisites
Features

The java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection method has the mandatory parameter url ( Connection URL) with the following connection options.

Option

Default Value

Description

acceptServerCertificateAlways

off

Only for SSL connections

Determines whether the database system checks if the SSL certificate of the database computer is contained in the list of the trusted certificates and whether it is still valid

Possible values:

off: The database system checks the SSL certificate.

on: The database system does not check the SSL certificate.

autocommit

on

AUTOCOMMIT mode

on: The database system ends every SQL statement automatically with a COMMIT.

off: You must end transactions explicitly with the commit () and rollback () methods.

cache

-

Specifies for which SQL statements in Prepared Statements the JDBC driver saves information (for example, on the used parameters) in a dedicated cache

Possible values:

all: all SQL statements

Combination of the following letters

s (SELECT statements)

i (INSERT statements)

u (UPDATE statements)

d (DELETE statements)

Example

cache=iud

The database system saves information on INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements in the cache.

connectiontimeout

0

Timeout for the connection (in milliseconds)

The value 0 means that there is no timeout.

connectiontrace

-

<file_name>

Enables a connection trace for the current connection only. The trace is written to the file specified.

currentschema

-

<schema_name>

Sets the default schema for the database session

If you do not specify this connection property, the current user's schema is used as default schema.

defaultresultsettype

-

Default result set type

ignoreHostNameInServerCert

off

Only for SSL connections

Determines whether the database system compares the name of the database computer with the name specified in the SSL certificate

Possible values:

off: The database system compares the names.

on: The database system does not compare the names.

isolation

-

Isolation level for the connection

You can specify the isolation level either as a character string or as an integer (depending how you have declared it in the java.sql.Connection class).

You can enter the following character strings:

TRANSACTION_READ_UNCOMMITTED | TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED| TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ| TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE

You can enter the following integer values: Concepts of the Database System, Isolation Level

password

-

Password of the database user

Caution

Observe the use of upper and lower case, see Database Administration, Conventions for User Names and Passwords.

reconnect

on

RECONNECT mode

Possible values:

on: The system automatically reconnects to the database instance after a command timeout.

off: There is no automatic new connection.

sqlmode

INTERNAL

SQL mode

ORACLE | INTERNAL

timeout

-

Timeout for the database session (in seconds)

If you specify this connection option, you override the timeout that has been configured for the database with the special database parameter SessionTimeout (see Database Administration, Special Database Parameters).

trace

-

<directory>/<jdbc_trace_file>

If you specify this connection option, then the database system writes a JDBC trace in the <jdbc_trace_file> file in the directory <directory>.

tracesize

-

Maximum number of lines in the JDBC trace file.

If this number of lines is exceeded, the database system begins to overwrite the content of the JDBC trace file

transport

socket

Communication method for communicating with the DBM server

Possible values:

socket: TCP/IP connection

secure: SSL connection, see Setting Up an SSL Connection

unicode

false

When you specify this connection option, the JDBC driver sends the user name, password, and SQL statements in Unicode to the database.

user

-

Name of the database user