microsoft SQL DataBase

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Dear all,
the project i am working on now is running on microsoft SQL DataBase and I need to install jforum on it.

this is my jforum-custom.conf settings

dao.driver=net.jforum.dao.sqlserver.SqlServerDataAccessDriverdatabase.connection.dbname=jforum
database.connection.driver=com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
database.connection.host=localhost
database.connection.implementation=net.jforum.SimpleConnection and i've tried net.jforum.PooledConnection t
database.connection.password=test
database.connection.pool.max=50
database.connection.pool.min=10
database.connection.pool.timeout=120
database.connection.port=1433
database.connection.string=jdbc\:jtds\:sqlserver\://${database.connection.host}\:${database.connection.port}/${database.connection.dbname};User\=${database.connection.username};Password\=${database.connection.password};SelectMethod\=cursor;
database.connection.username=sa
database.driver.name=sqlserver

i've got this on the console :
net.jforum.exceptions.DatabaseException: Error while trying to start the database: net.jforum.exceptions.DatabaseException: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:545)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:193)
at net.jforum.SimpleConnection.getConnection(SimpleConnection.java:94)
at net.jforum.SimpleConnection.init(SimpleConnection.java:74)
at net.jforum.ForumStartup.startDatabase(ForumStartup.java:75)
at net.jforum.JForum.init(JForum.java:95)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:757)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:130)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:175)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:74)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: net.jforum.exceptions.DatabaseException: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver
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Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver
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[originally posted on jforum.net by mot]

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Doesn't look like you have the MS SQL odbc driver. Did you download one and copy it to the Tomcat common/lib dir (if you're using Tomcat)? If you didn't do that, you will need to, and then restart Tomcat.
[originally posted on jforum.net by GatorBait3]