CTP2 release for SQL Server 2005 JDBC v1.2 - test and download
JDBC driver for SQL Server is not part of the Java SDK. To set the classpath to include the sqljdbc.jar file if you want to use it. The sqljdbc.jar file is installed in the following location:
<installation directory>\sqljdbc_<version>\<language>\sqljdbc.jar
So now the JDBC development team announced availability of v1.2 CTP2 (beta) release. The driver is downloadable at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc and this is direct link to the download page.
Don't forget to refer to JDBC Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/jdbcteam