June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 50m
English
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is the Java standard that defines how a client accesses a (in most cases, relational) database. The different database vendors provide an implementation of this API, often called a JDBC driver.
Even if the basic purpose of JDBC is to provide a standardized way of executing native SQL statements and handling the result sets, it's often used as a foundation for other frameworks, for example, JPA or Hibernate.
Performance-tuning JDBC consists of the following processes: