FIX: You may receive an error message when you load the SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC and the SQL Server 2005 Driver for JDBC in the same application, you try to connect to a SQL Server 2005 database, and then you run a query

import java.sql.*;
public class TestDriver {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
       	{

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

	Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://<Server>;DatabaseName=<DatabaseName>", 
"<UserId>","<Passwd>");
	DatabaseMetaData dbmd = conn.getMetaData();
	System.out.println("Driver = " + dbmd.getDriverName() + "_" + dbmd.getDriverVersion());

	conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlserver://<Server>;DatabaseName=<DatabaseName>", 
"<UserId>","<Passwd>");
	dbmd = conn.getMetaData();
	System.out.println("Driver = " + dbmd.getDriverName() + "_" + dbmd.getDriverVersion());
	displayVersions(conn);
	}

	public static void displayVersions(Connection conn)
       	{
               Statement s3 = null;
               ResultSet rr = null;

               try
               {
                       s3 = conn.createStatement();
                       System.out.println("\nStart trying to retreive data\n");
                       rr = s3.executeQuery("select @@version");

                       boolean OK = rr.next();
                       if (OK)
                               System.out.println("The current version of Microsoft SQL Server is: " + rr.getString(1));
                       else
                               System.out.println("result set NO ROWS!");
               }
               catch (Exception ex)
               {
                       System.out.println("Caught error in displayAnyData:\n\t" + ex.getMessage());
               }

               try
               {
                       if (rr != null) rr.close();
                       if (s3 != null) s3.close();
                       System.out.println("End trying to retreive data\n");
               }
               catch (Exception ee)
               {
                       System.out.println("Error closing rr or s3 in displayData: " + ee.getMessage());
               }

	}

	}