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I cannot figure out why this keeps popping whenever I am trying to set up a new connection.

My school project requires to connect netbeans to a database.

I've been following this video tutorial: How to Connect Netbeans to Microsoft Access Database by Kindson .

and after learning that SE 8 does not have jdbc:odbc bridge. Then, I found this tutorial: How to enable JDBC-ODBC bridge for JDK 8

cannot establish a connection to jdbc:odbc:test database using sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver (null)

So at the moment I'm at this part knowing nothing of whats wrong (Error screen).

Loic P.
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  • *"my school project requires me to connect netbeans to a database"* - Does it have to be an *Access* database? – Gord Thompson Mar 13 '17 at 12:42
  • no, but i will need a new tutorial related to what database your gonna recommend like save/load data to that database, etc. – user2644715 Mar 13 '17 at 12:50
  • If you really want to connect to MS Access with Java 8, I would recommend looking at this library http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.healthmarketscience.jackcess/jackcess/2.1.6 as it does not depend on jdbc:odbc bridge – Imran Saeed Mar 13 '17 at 13:23
  • @i.net - [UCanAccess](http://stackoverflow.com/q/21955256/2144390) would probably be easier than Jackcess for a relative newbie to work with. – Gord Thompson Mar 13 '17 at 13:39
  • @GordThompson I'll take your word for this as it's been a long time since I interacted with Access and my experience is limited to Jackcess (wasn't too pleasant but not too bad either) – Imran Saeed Mar 13 '17 at 13:45
  • thx, ill try that but heh, i doubt i can install those at school – user2644715 Mar 13 '17 at 14:16
  • If your school has issues with you installing a JDBC driver then chances are good that they also wouldn't take kindly to you hacking JRE8 to include the JDBC-ODBC Bridge. If they have already made a JDBC driver available to you then they should tell you what it is. – Gord Thompson Mar 13 '17 at 14:23
  • heres the "thing", lazy teacher, writes a do this "activity", then sits, does nothing for the entire class and we all simply scramble what we can find at youtube for a tutorial – user2644715 Mar 13 '17 at 14:34

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