User`s guide

Sybase JDBC for Linux

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Select OTHER from the Vendor list.

Enter the Sybase driver Java class object in the Driver field. Here, use

com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybDriver. After entering the driver, if you did not

add the JDBC driver file path to the Java class path, this dialog box displays this

message at the bottom. Address this message by following the steps described in

Step 2.

Connect to the Sybase database by creating a URL string using the format

jdbc:subprotocol:subname. The jdbc part of this string stays constant for

any JDBC driver. subprotocol is a database type. In this case, subprotocol is

sybase:Tds. The last part of the URL string is subname. For Sybase, this contains

the server name, the port number, and the database name. For example, your string

is jdbc:sybase:Tds:ServerName:PortNumber/dbname, where ServerName is