We strongly recommend that you use the third-party JDBC drivers supplied by major enterprise database vendors whenever possible, such as those listed in Section 13.4, Supported Third-Party JDBC Drivers (Recommended). They are usually free, mature, and known to interoperate well with the JDBC driver and the databases they target. You can use other third-party drivers, but Novell does not support them.
In general, most third-party drivers are backward compatible. However, even if they are backward compatible, they are generally not forward compatible. Anytime a database server is upgraded, the third-party driver used with this product should probably be updated as well.
Also, as a general rule, we recommend that you use the latest version of a third-party driver, unless otherwise noted.
NOTE:For using integrated security with the Microsoft SQL Servers on a Windows platform, run the JDBC driver on a Remote Loader server.