One aspect of application development that is common to all applications is the constant need to improve performance and reliability. There are a number of techniques for doing this with the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver.
The topics in this section describe various techniques for improving application performance and reliability when using the JDBC driver.
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Describes the importance of closing JDBC driver objects when they are no longer needed. |
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Describes techniques for improving transaction performance. |
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Describes techniques for improving performance when using the Statement or ResultSet objects. |
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Describes an adaptive buffering feature, which is designed to retrieve any kind of large-value data without the overhead of server cursors. |
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Discusses the JDBC driver's support for SQL Server sparse columns. |