Chapter 4. Database Programming

In this chapter

• The Design of JDBC

• The Structured Query Language

• JDBC Configuration

• Executing SQL Statements

• Query Execution

• Scrollable and Updatable Result Sets

• Row Sets

• Metadata

• Transactions

• Connection Management in Web and Enterprise Applications

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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