The connection to the host localhost, named instance XXX failed. Error: "java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Receive timed out". Verify the server and instance names and check that no firewall is ...

SQL Server 2005's Type 4 JDBC driver provides database connectivity from a Java application. Though the driver class and connection URL are a bit different in this version, connectivity is a snap.

Caused by: java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: SQL Server collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS is not supported by this driver. at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLCollation.encodingFromSortId ...

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year.