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Welcome to the Progress DataDirect for JDBC Drivers Reference
  

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Welcome to the Progress DataDirect for JDBC Drivers Reference

This guide provides general information for the 6.0 version of Progress DataDirect drivers, including troubleshooting tips, descriptions of advanced features, and tutorials for DataDirect tools. The content of this guide applies to all 6.0 versions of the JDBC drivers unless otherwise noted.
The reference acts as a compliment to the driver user's guides, which provide detailed instructions on configuring and using drivers. The full documentation set is available on the DataDirect Connectors Documentation Web Page.
Important: This guide describes features and functionality only for the 6.0 version of the drivers. For other versions of the drivers, refer to DataDirect Connectors Documentation Web Page.
This guide contains:
*A Troubleshooting section that provides information that can help you identify and resolve driver problems.
*A detailed description of the following advanced features:
*Failover
*Client information
*The following general reference information:
*JDBC support provides information about the JDBC interfaces and methods supported for Progress DataDirect for JDBC drivers.
*JDBC extensions describes the JDBC extensions provided by the com.ddtek.jdbc.extensions package.
*Designing JDBC applications for performance optimization explains how you optimize your application code to improve performance.
*SQL escape sequences for JDBC describes the scalar functions supported by the drivers. Your data store may not support all these functions.
*Tutorials for the following DataDirect tools:
*DataDirect Test guides through a step-by-step example of how to use DataDirect Test™ for JDBC, a tool that allows you to test and debug your JDBC applications during development.
*Tracking JDBC calls with DataDirect Spy describes how to use DataDirect Spy™ for JDBC for tracking JDBC calls in running applications.
*Connection Pool Manager describes how to use the DataDirect Connection Pool Manager to create your own connection pooling mechanism.
*Statement Pool Monitor describes how to use the DataDirect Statement Pool Monitor to import statements to and remove statements from the statement pool, as well as generate information to help you troubleshoot statement pooling performance.
Note: This reference refers the reader to Web pages using URLs for more information about specific topics, including Web URLs not maintained by Progress DataDirect. Because it is the nature of Web content to change frequently, Progress DataDirect can guarantee only that the URLs in this reference were correct at the time of publishing.