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Bryan Pendleton commented on DERBY-4622:
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There's something funky about the leading C: in Windows file paths, and the
Java URL syntax.
I seem to remember that you need extra slashes in the front, along the lines of
///c:/AppData/local/etc.
If indeed this works, we could put it in the docs somewhere.
> Specify "database:" URL prefix in documentation
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>
> Key: DERBY-4622
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4622
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Chris Dolan
> Priority: Trivial
>
> The tutorial step titled "Activity 3: Run a JDBC program using the embedded
> driver" at the following URL
> (http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.4/getstart/getstart-single.html#tgsactivity3_Setup)
> recommends this syntax for specifying a directory-based datasource:
>
> String connectionURL = "jdbc:derby:" + dbName + ";create=true";
> For Windows users who need to specify an absolute path to the database, this
> is a problem because the connection interprets "c:/path/to/db" as
> non-existent protocol "c" and a database name of "/path/to/db". Better
> documentation would be explicitly specify the protocol:
> String connectionURL = "jdbc:derby:directory:" + dbName + ";create=true";
> (this would have saved me about a day of troubleshooting...)
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