Hello, I was able to get the DIH working in SOLR 3.6.1 (placed the sqljdbc4.jar file in the lib directory, etc). Everything worked great. Tried to get everything working in SOLR 4 beta (on the same dev machine connecting to same db, etc) and was unable to due to the sql driver not loading.
What i've done: 1. SOLR 4 admin comes up fine(configured solrconfig.xml and schema.xml) 2. Dropped the sqljdbc4.jar in the lib directory 3. Added sqljdbc4.jar to classpath 4. Added dataimporthandler to solrconfig.xml: <lib dir="../../../dist/" regex="apache-solr-dataimporthandler-\d.*\.jar" /> <lib dir="../../../contrib/dataimporthandler/lib/" regex=".*\.jar" /> 5. Even tried jtds which also gave me errors that the driver could not be loaded. Here is my datasource in the data-config.xml (DIH config file): <dataSource name="db" type="JdbcDataSource" driver="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver" url="jdbc:sqlserver://DBSERVERNAME;instanceName=INST1;user=solr;password=password;applicationName=solr-DIH;databaseName=scratch" user="solr" password="password"/> Here is the error i get when trying to use jdbc connector: SEVERE: Full Import failed:java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandlerException: Could not load driver: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver Processing Document # 1 at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.execute(DocBuilder.java:273) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.doFullImport(DataImporter.java:382) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.runCmd(DataImporter.java:448) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter$1.run(DataImporter.java:429) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandlerException: Could not load driver: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver Processing Document # 1 at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.buildDocument(DocBuilder.java:413) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.doFullDump(DocBuilder.java:326) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.execute(DocBuilder.java:234) ... 3 more Caused by: org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandlerException: Could not load driver: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver Processing Document # 1 at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandlerException.wrapAndThrow(DataImportHandlerException.java:71) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.createConnectionFactory(JdbcDataSource.java:114) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.init(JdbcDataSource.java:62) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.getDataSourceInstance(DataImporter.java:354) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.ContextImpl.getDataSource(ContextImpl.java:99) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.SqlEntityProcessor.init(SqlEntityProcessor.java:53) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.EntityProcessorWrapper.init(EntityProcessorWrapper.java:74) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.buildDocument(DocBuilder.java:430) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.buildDocument(DocBuilder.java:411) ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Unable to load com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver or org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.loadClass(DocBuilder.java:899) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.createConnectionFactory(JdbcDataSource.java:112) ... 12 more Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error loading class 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver' at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.findClass(SolrResourceLoader.java:438) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.loadClass(DocBuilder.java:889) ... 13 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.findClass(SolrResourceLoader.java:422) ... 14 more -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Data-Import-Handler-Could-not-load-driver-com-microsoft-sqlserver-jdbc-SQLServerDriver-SOLR-4-Beta-tp4002902.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.