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JDBC driver type 2 -- the native-API/partly Java driver -- converts JDBC calls into database-specific calls for databases such as SQL Server, Informix, Oracle, or Sybase. The type 2 driver communicates directly with the database server; therefore it requires that some binary code be present on the client machine.

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Type 2 drivers typically offer significantly better performance than the JDBC-ODBC Bridge.

Cons
The vendor database library needs to be ...

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