CHAPTER 6

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JDBC API

In this chapter, you will learn

  • What JDBC API is
  • Types of JDBC drivers
  • A brief overview of Java DB
  • How to connect to a database using a JDBC driver
  • What transaction isolation levels are
  • JDBC-data-types-to-Java-data-types mapping
  • How to execute SQL statements in Java programs and processing the results
  • Using rowsets, batch updates, and large objects (LOBs)
  • How to retrieve SQL warning and enable JDBC tracing

What Is the JDBC API?

The JDBC API provides a standard database-independent interface to interact with any tabular data source. Most of the time, it is used to interact with a relational database management system (RDBMs). ...

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