Hotfix: JDBC Driver 12.8.1 for SQL Server Released

We recently released an update to Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server version 12.8.1. This update addresses several issues that were introduced in the 12.8.0 release.

Problems solved

• Adjusted DESTINATION_COL_METADATA_LOCK in SQLServerBulkCopy to ensure it is released appropriately in all cases. #2492
• Reverted the “Execute stored procedures directly” feature and subsequent changes related to that feature. #2493
• Changed driver behavior to allow reuse of prepared statement objects to avoid “multiple queries not allowed” errors. #2494

change

• Changed MSAL logging from FINER to FINEST. #2491

Get the latest release

Latest bits available Download from Microsoftat GitHub RepositoryAnd through Maven Central.

Add the JDBC 12.8.1 RTW driver to your Maven project and include it as a dependency of your project by adding the following code to your POM file (choose .jre8 for Java 8/1.8 or .jre11 for Java 11 or later).

 
  com.microsoft.sqlserver 
  mssql-jdbc 
  12.8.1.jre11 
 

Please help improve the JDBC driver. Raising a problem Try it out on GitHub or by contributing to the project.