We have the following complex password that has been assigned to us but i cannot seem to escape it correctly: cL0rk=Ao."+LAPUU&;0a\^D/O I am using jtds as the jdbc driver with the connectino url: jdbc.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver:// 127.0.0.1:1433/dbName;user=testUser;password=cL0rk=Ao http://127.0.0.1:1433/simsXML;user=testUser;password=cL0rk=Ao ."+LAPUU&;0a\^D/O jdbc.driverClass=net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver Thanks