JdbcOdbc Error. i cant connect to the ODBC driver

Question

I'm currently studying this program and I've tried to solve this myself, but it seems that I can't understand what went wrong.

How can I connect it to my database? :)

Here is the my code below:

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package payroll.system;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.net.*;


public class clsConnection {
        String url = "";
        String username = "";
        String password = "";


    public Connection setConnection(Connection conn, String username, String password )

    {
        try
    {

        Properties props = new Properties();
        String fileName = "MakeDB.ini";        FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(fileName);
        props.load(in);
        String drivers = props.getProperty("jdbc.drivers");
        if(drivers != null)
        System.setProperty("jdbc.drivers", drivers);
         url = props.getProperty("jdbc.url");
         username = props.getProperty("jdbc.username");
         password = props.getProperty("jdbc.password");
          conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url,username,password);

    }catch(SQLException e)
        {
            System.err.println("SQl Exception");
            e.printStackTrace();

        }

           catch(IOException e)
           {
               System.out.println("\nIO Exception");
           }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                System.out.println("\nAnother Error");
            }
            return conn;

    }




}

THIS IS THE ERROR after I compile the program:

SQl Exception
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(JdbcOdbc.java:6964)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(JdbcOdbc.java:7121)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLDriverConnect(JdbcOdbc.java:3080)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcConnection.initialize(JdbcOdbcConnection.java:323)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.connect(JdbcOdbcDriver.java:174)

Answer 1

This is due to the fact that you have not set up odbc driver. to set up odbc driver you need to go to Administrative Tools under Control Panel and chose appropriate driver to setup ODBC. You can visit MSDN for more details. Hope this helps.