Error com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host localhost, port 1433 has failed using a non-XA SQL Server datasource

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.2
  • Microsoft SQL Server (non-XA datasource)

Issue

  • The following exception is raised when obtaining a connection from a non-XA Microsoft SQL Server datasource:

    ... Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host localhost, port 1433 has failed. Error: "Connection refused. Verify the connection properties. Make sure that an instance of SQL Server is running on the host and accepting TCP/IP connections at the port. Make sure that TCP connections to the port are not blocked by a firewall."

Resolution

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One of the following may resolve the issue

  • If a datasource-class property has been specified unintentionlly in the datasource or driver configuration, remove the datasource-class from the datasource or driver configuration. This allows JBoss to utilize the java.sql.Driver implementation specified by the underlying driver.

  • If the use of the datasource-class is required/intentional (i.e. if you cannot utilize the default java.sql.Driver connection mechanism), add one or more properties to the datasource configuration corresponding to the set<Property>(...) methods defined by the Microsoft driver and remove the connection-url property. For example:

        <connection-property name="URL">jdbc:sqlserver://myhost:1433</datasource-property>

Root Cause

  • The issue may be due to specification of a datasource-class when defining a non-XA pool.

        <datasource-class>com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource</datasource-class>
    • The use of an implementation of javax.sql.DataSource requires significantly different configuration from the standard java.sql.Driver mechanism which is the default for JDBC 4 compliant drivers when creating non-XA connections.
    • When using a datasource-class, the connection-url property is ignored and no JDBC url is supplied, hence the exception.
  • Note that the web console automatically (incorrectly) adds a datasource-class attribute in early patch levels of JBoss EAP 7.2 (and in the un-patched GA).

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