Chapter 17. Working with Databases

Welcome to Day 17! Today you're going to get more of the inside story on working with databases. You'll learn how to look up data on the server for the user, how to navigate through a database, and more in-depth topics. Here's an overview of today's work:

  • Supporting user data lookup using databases

  • Navigating through a database

  • Getting information about a result set

  • Joining database tables

  • Creating and filling database tables

Today you're going to see some advanced topics, including joining database tables and extracting data from them, as well as creating your own database tables. Yesterday was more discussion-intensive to build your JDBC foundation—today's work is code-intensive, as you learn how to put all this ...

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