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# SAP ASE (formerly Sybase ASE)

| Vendor Name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Details                                                                                                                             |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Recommended Native Driver                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |                                                                                                                                     |
| SAP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | <p>Company URL:</p><p><a href="https://www.sap.com/products/sybase-ase.html"><https://www.sap.com/products/sybase-ase.html></a></p> |
| <p>Driver URL:</p><p>The jConnect JDBC driver can only be installed from the SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Installer. See the SAP website for more information.</p>                                                                                                                               |                                                                                                                                     |
| <p>JDBC URL Syntax by Type:</p><ul><li><strong>Server</strong></li></ul><p><code>jdbc:sybase:Tds:\<server>\[:\<port>]/\<databaseName></code></p>                                                                                                                                                   | <p>Default Port:</p><p>5000</p>                                                                                                     |
| <p>JDBC Class:</p><p><code>com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybDriver</code></p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | <p>JDBC JAR File Name:</p><p>N/A</p>                                                                                                |
| <p>Comments:</p><p>The open source jTDS driver works with SAP ASE (formerly Sybase) as well. Note that although you can use jTDS open source JDBC driver, we recommend that you use the SAP-supplied JDBC driver instead. Connections might not work reliably if you use the jTDS JDBC driver.</p> |                                                                                                                                     |


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