If you're going to use SQL Developer, you can use this open source JDBC driver, which works well.<BR><BR>Is your server specifically configured to reject JDBC and only use ODBC?

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Microsoft is introducing other capabilities to SQL Server 2025 to facilitate the development of AI-based applications, including JSON support, a Python driver, and change event streaming.

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.