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Java For Dummies, 8th Edition
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Java For Dummies, 8th Edition

by Barry Burd
April 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 32m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 17

Using Java Database Connectivity

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Connecting to a database

Bullet Inserting values into a database

Bullet Making queries to a database

The year is 1998. I'm scheduled to introduce Java Database Connectivity to a group of computer science professors at the ITiCSE conference in Ireland. Every day, for six days, I spend all afternoon driving from one town to another. Every evening, my family members visit the town's sites while I sit in our hotel room, pounding away at my laptop. The demo I have planned for the conference presentation isn't working, and nothing I do makes the error messages go away.

On the day of the conference, my demo still isn't working. I do a scaled-down presentation — one that should be called “Simulating Java Database Connectivity.” Like any experienced instructor, I make up an excuse for the presentation's wimpy results. “JDBC is still in beta,” I say. Fortunately, the conference attendees seem to believe me.

A month later, back home in New Jersey, I discover the flaw in the demo I had planned. Rather than type database customers, I should have typed databasecustomers. The thing that kept me from touring towns in Ireland and reduced my conference ...

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