About this book

The Sybase jConnect for JDBC Programmer's Reference describes the jConnect[TM] for JDBC[TM] product and explains how to use it to access data stored in relational database management systems.

Audience

This manual is for database-application programmers who are familiar with the Java programming language, JDBC, and Transact-SQL^® , the Sybase® version of Structured Query Language (SQL).

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Conventions

This manual uses the following font and syntax conventions:

Classes, interfaces, methods, and packages are shown in Helvetica within paragraph text. For example:

SybConnection class

SybEventHandler interface

setBinaryStream method

com.sybase.jdbcx package
Objects, instances, and parameter names are shown in italics. For example:

"In the following example, ctx is a DirContext object."

"eventHdler is an instance of the SybEventHandler class that you implement."

"The classes parameter is a string that lists specific classes you want to debug."
Code fragments are shown in a monospaced font. Variables in code fragments (that is, words that stand for values that you fill in) are italicized. For example:
```
Connection  con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:
    sybase:Tds:host:port",  props);
```

Accessibility features

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