com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver not found error

You dont need both jTDS and JDBC in your classpath. Any one is required. Here you need only sqljdbc.jar.

Also, I would suggest to place sqljdbc.jar at physical location to /WEB-INF/lib directory of your project rather than adding it in the Classpath via IDE. Then Tomcat takes care the rest. And also try restarting Tomcat.

You can download Jar from : www.java2s.com/Code/JarDownload/sqlserverjdbc/sqlserverjdbc.jar.zip

EDIT:

As you are supplying Username and Password when connecting,

You need only jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=test, Skip integratedSecurity attribute.

You are looking at sqljdbc4.2 version like :

Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");

but, for sqljdbc4 version statement should be:

Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");

I think if you change your first version to write the correct Class.forName , your application will run.

For me, it worked once I changed

Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");

to:

in POM

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>6.1.0.jre8</version>
</dependency>

and then:

import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver;

...

DriverManager.registerDriver(SQLServerDriver());    
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl); 

intellij idea 2019

1. Download Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server

(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/jdbc/download-microsoft-jdbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)

2. Unpack ("C:\opt\sqljdbc_7.2\enu\mssql-jdbc-7.2.2.jre11.jar")
3. Add; (File->Project Structure->Global Libraries)
4. Use; (Adding Jar files to IntellijIdea classpath (look video)) import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver; https://youtu.be/-2hjxoRKsyk

or ub Gradle set "compile" compile group: 'com.microsoft.sqlserver', name: 'mssql-jdbc', version: '7.2.2.jre11'

here is your answer

String userName = "xxxx";
    String password = "xxxx";
    String url = "jdbc:sqlserver:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;databaseName=asdfzxcvqwer;integratedSecurity=true";

    try {
            Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");
            connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, userName, password); 

  } catch (Exception e)
  {
     e.printStackTrace();
  }

public static final String URL = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=dbName";
public static final String USERNAME = "xxxx";
public static final String PASSWORD = "xxxx";

/**
 *  This method
    @param args     command line argument
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
   try
   {
        Connection connection;
        DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver());   
        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(MainDriver.URL,MainDriver.USERNAME,
                        MainDriver.PASSWORD);
        String query ="select * from employee";
        Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
        ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery(query);
        while(resultSet.next())
        {
            System.out.print("First Name: " + resultSet.getString("first_name"));
            System.out.println("  Last Name: " + resultSet.getString("last_name"));                
        }
   }catch(Exception ex)
   {
        ex.printStackTrace();
   }
}

For me it worked after manually copying the sqljdbc4-2.jar into WEB-INF/lib folder. So please have a try on this too.

For me it was a wrong maven dependency deceleration, so here is the correct way:

for sqljdbc4 use: sqljdbc4 dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>sqljdbc4</artifactId>
    <version>4.0</version>
</dependency>

for sqljdbc42 use: sqljdbc42 dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>sqljdbc42</artifactId>
    <version>6.0.8112</version>
</dependency>

My code base was having

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
        <artifactId>sqljdbc4</artifactId>
        <version>4.0</version>
    </dependency>

it was pulling an older version of mssql-jdbc

I replaced it with the below dependency and it worked.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
        <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
        <version>7.4.1.jre8</version>
    </dependency>