Connecting to a SQL Server 2000 db from Java - jdbc

Question

I am receiving an error that I did see on your site, but as a novice java coder I think that I flubbed my implementation of the solution.
I am getting a message
"SQL Server version 8 is not supported by this driver. ClientConnectionId:602d619d-c033-41d0-9109-80f56e3ab9b3"
I am using Eclipse Mars 1
The database is a sql server 2000, so I downloaded sqljdbc.jar from the Microsoft site as suggested by an earlier question. I loaded it to c:\temp and added that to the CLASSPATH and rebooted.
code snippet reads:
package texasLAMPConversion;
import java.sql.*;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
public class TexasLAMPConversion {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String host = "jdbc:sqlserver://serverName\\instanceName";
String uName = "*********";
String uPass = "*********";
Connection conn = null;
try {
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(host, uName,uPass);
if (conn != null) { System.out.println("Connected to the database");
}
} catch (SQLException ex) {
System.out.println(ex.getMessage() );
ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (conn != null) {
try {
conn.close();
} catch (SQLException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
FileWriter fw= null;
File file =null;
try {
file=new File("C:/temp/generated_stmts_update_t_customer_master.sql");
if(!file.exists()) {
file.createNewFile();
}
fw = new FileWriter(file);
}catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String oldKey = "8000001234", newKey = "8";
int lenAcct = 10;
oldKey = ReformatOldAcct(lenAcct, oldKey );
newKey = leftZeroAcct(lenAcct, newKey);
System.out.println("oldkey = " + oldKey + " and newKey = " + newKey);
}
private static String ReformatOldAcct(int lenAcct, String oldKey) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String reformatedAcct = "";
reformatedAcct = "0" + oldKey.substring(2, lenAcct);
return (reformatedAcct);
}
private static String leftZeroAcct(int lenAcct, String acctNo) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
int index =0;
int currentLengthAcct;
String leadingZero = "";
currentLengthAcct = acctNo.length();
while (index < (lenAcct -currentLengthAcct) ) {
leadingZero = '0' + leadingZero;
index ++;
}
return (leadingZero + acctNo);
}
}
and it is throwing this complete message
Apr 19, 2016 11:29:44 AM com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection Prelogin
WARNING: ConnectionID:1 ClientConnectionId: 602d619d-c033-41d0-9109-80f56e3ab9b3 Server major version:8 is not supported by this driver.
Apr 19, 2016 11:29:44 AM com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection Prelogin
WARNING: ConnectionID:1 ClientConnectionId: 602d619d-c033-41d0-9109-80f56e3ab9b3 Server major version:8 is not supported by this driver.
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: SQL Server version 8 is not supported by this driver. ClientConnectionId:602d619d-c033-41d0-9109-80f56e3ab9b3com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: SQL Server version 8 is not supported by this driver. ClientConnectionId:602d619d-c033-41d0-9109-80f56e3ab9b3
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.terminate(SQLServerConnection.java:2226) at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.terminate(SQLServerConnection.java:2226)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.terminate(SQLServerConnection.java:2210)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.terminate(SQLServerConnection.java:2210)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.Prelogin(SQLServerConnection.java:2095)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.Prelogin(SQLServerConnection.java:2095)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(SQLServerConnection.java:1799)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(SQLServerConnection.java:1799)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.login(SQLServerConnection.java:1454)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.login(SQLServerConnection.java:1454)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectInternal(SQLServerConnection.java:1285)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectInternal(SQLServerConnection.java:1285)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(SQLServerConnection.java:700)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(SQLServerConnection.java:700)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(SQLServerDriver.java:1131)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(SQLServerDriver.java:1131)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at texasLAMPConversion.TexasLAMPConversion.main(TexasLAMPConversion.java:20)
at texasLAMPConversion.TexasLAMPConversion.main(TexasLAMPConversion.java:20)
SQL Server version 8 is not supported by this driver. ClientConnectionId:602d619d-c033-41d0-9109-80f56e3ab9b3
SQL Server version 8 is not supported by this driver. ClientConnectionId:602d619d-c033-41d0-9109-80f56e3ab9b3
Any thoughts for a novice java programmer moving away from PowerBuilder?