Getting Database Server and Driver Info

JDBC for SQL Server - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Microsoft JDBC Driver - DatabaseMetaData Object

∟Getting Database Server and Driver Info

This section describes how to get database server and JDBC driver information through the DatabaseMetaData object.

If you want to know the database server name and version, or the JDBC driver name and version, you can get them through the DatabaseMetaData object as shown in the following sample program:

/* DatabaseInfo.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
public class DatabaseInfo {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {

// Obtaining a connection to SQL Server
      con = DriverManager.getConnection(
          "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost\\SQLEXPRESS;"
        + "user=herong;password=T0pSecret;"
        + "database=AdventureWorks2019");

// Database and driver info
      DatabaseMetaData meta = con.getMetaData();
      System.out.println("Server name: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductName());
      System.out.println("Server version: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductVersion());
      System.out.println("Driver name: "
        + meta.getDriverName());
      System.out.println("Driver version: "
        + meta.getDriverVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC major version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMajorVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC minor version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMinorVersion());

      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Running this example program with different versions of JDK, JDBC Driver, and SQL Server, gives you:

herong> java -cp .;mssql-jdbc-9.4.1.jre16.jar DatabaseInfo

Server name: Microsoft SQL Server
Server version: 15.00.2000
Driver name: Microsoft JDBC Driver 9.4 for SQL Server
Driver version: 9.4.1.0
JDBC major version: 4
JDBC minor version: 3

herong> java -cp .:mssql-jdbc-7.4.1.jre12.jar DatabaseInfo

Server name: Microsoft SQL Server
Server version: 11.00.3128
Driver name: Microsoft JDBC Driver 7.4 for SQL Server
Driver version: 7.4.1.0
JDBC major version: 4
JDBC minor version: 3

herong> java -cp .;sqljdbc41.jar DatabaseInfo

Server name: Microsoft SQL Server
Server version: 12.00.2000
Driver name: Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.2 for SQL Server
Driver version: 4.2.6225.100
JDBC major version: 4
JDBC minor version: 1