SQL Server 2005 & Microsoft JDBC driver

Hello,

I just wanted to share this fix with rest of you folks. I spent almost a day trying to fix the problem.

Those who are trying to retrieve data from SQL Server 2005 using Microsoft's JDBC driver might get the following error message.

[Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for JDBC][SQLServer]The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) remote procedure call (RPC) protocol stream is incorrect. Parameter 1 (""): Data type 0x38 is unknown.

All you need to do is change the connection string.

Current : jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://<ServerName>:<PortNumber>;databaseName=<DatabaseName>;SelectMethod=Cursor

New: jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://<ServerName>:<PortNumber>;databaseName=<DatabaseName>;SelectMethod=Direct

By changing select method from Cursor to Direct you would be able to retrieve data.

HTH
[ March 02, 2007: Message edited by: Ram Bu ]

Thanks for sharing that. What was the SQL statement you were trying to execute?

Any simple SELECT statements would throw that error message.