August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
988 pages
24h 37m
English
In 1996, Sun released the first version of the JDBC API. This API lets programmers connect to a database to query or update it using the Structured Query Language (SQL). (SQL, usually pronounced “sequel,” is an industry standard for relational database access.) JDBC has since become one of the most commonly used APIs in the Java library.
JDBC has been updated several times. As this book is published, JDBC 4.3, the version included with Java 9, is the most current version.
In this chapter, I will explain the key ideas behind JDBC. I will introduce you to (or refresh your memory of) SQL, the industry-standard Structured Query Language for relational databases. The chapter has enough details and examples to ...