February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
32h 49m
English
In this chapter
• The Structured Query Language
• Scrollable and Updatable Result Sets
• Row Sets
• Metadata
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 part of the Java SE 1.2 release in 1998, a second version of JDBC was ...
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