I’m using Coldfusion 9 with SQL Server Express 2005 and the packaged SQL SERVER driver.

Followed your instructions above (except for using the JDBC driver) and was getting Login Failed errors. Here’s what fixed it for me:

Step #8: after setting up user, password and default database, click on User Mapping and make sure Map is checked next to the database you are trying to connect to.

Once I did this, it worked like a charm.

Note-1: I have Protocols for MSSQLSERVER as well as Protocols for SQLEXPRESS beneath the Sql Server 2005 Network Configuration heading (above, point #4). I needed to make sure the TCP/IP for MSSQLSERVER is also enabled for port 1433.

Note-2: I had to copy/paste sqljdbc4.jar into the same folder where cfusion.jar already existed. Could be that sqljdbc.jar would also have worked, but since sqljdbc4.jar worked, I went with that.

I downloaded Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0 and used sqljdbc4.jar (the driver) and sqljdbc_auth.dll (for integrated security) from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937724.aspx

I put them in the appropriate directories as follows (restart cf service after placement):
C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\WEB-INF\lib\sqljdbc4.jar
C:\WINDOWS\system32\sqljdbc_auth.dll

New Datasource Type: “other”
CF Data Source Name: “WEB1″
JDBC URL: “jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=WEB1;integratedSecurity=true;”
Driver Class: “com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver”
Driver Name: “Microsoft SQL Server JDBC 2.0″
User name: “”
Password: “”
Description: “”

Thanks for the great article.

Its solved the problem Instead of choosing OTHER in th datasource type dropdown, choosed Microsoft SQL Server and its working. Please correct me if i am wrong. (In the database side, the compactability level set to 100)

07:44:57,424 ERROR [STDERR] A non-SQL error occurred while requesting a connection from TEST

07:44:57,424 ERROR [STDERR] Timed out trying to establish connection

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] Exception in thread “Thread-21″

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.LinkageError: javax/net/ssl/SSLSocketFactory

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSChannel.enableSSL(IOBuffer.java:1368)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(SQLServerConnection.java:1058)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.login(SQLServerConnection.java:833)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(SQLServerConnection.java:716)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(SQLServerDriver.java:841)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at coldfusion.server.j2ee.sql.pool.JDBCPool.createPhysicalConnection(JDBCPool.java:562)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at coldfusion.server.j2ee.sql.pool.ConnectionRunner$RunnableConnection.run(ConnectionRunner.java:67)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] A non-SQL error occurred while requesting a connection from

07:45:00,049 ERROR [STDERR] Timed out trying to establish connection

I used the newer Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0
There are two files and you must use the sqljdbc4.jar file. (I found that out from an error message)

All other instructions are the same however like some said earlier, be sure to restart Coldfusion after step 9, be sure to put the port number in all ip address sources, and make sure you give proper permissions to the SQL User you login with (I preferred to manage the security from the datasource level security folder rather than the database level security folder).

“Connection verification failed for data source:TEST
java.sql.SQLException: Timed out trying to establish connection”

By using ColdFusion MX7 trying to create the datasources for the sql server 2008.

Any help!