MS Access Driver

[Faisal Farooqui]

hi
I'm new in JDBC can any 1 tell me how can i access data of ms access. pls write with sample code. my data base name is accounts. Thnx
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[David O'Meara]

The easiest way is to set up your access db with an ODBC (microsoft stuff) service. Then you can use the JDBC-ODBC bridge to get java to talk to ODBC.
You should be able to set this up in the OCBD section of the control panel, then use the sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver with the url "jdbc: odbc:accounts"
I have some sample code but I can't get to it at the moment :}
Apart from the ODBC stuff it's all the same anyways.
Dave.
[This message has been edited by David O'Meara (edited July 22, 2001).]

[prashant komaragiri]

hi,
u can try something likethis.
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc dbc:accounts") ;
/* assume that accounts is ur dsn */
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
then u can get resultset object with this statement object
hope this helps
prashant

[Marcus Green]

Be aware that the jdbc.odbc bridge has some significant restrictions, it is a type 1 driver which means you can only ever go forward through a result set, it does not understand the Access memo data type and it has problems with threading.
Link to some typical code
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/techDocs/SearchData/qa/JDBC-ODBC_Bridge.html

[prashant komaragiri]

hi,
u can try something likethis.
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc dbc:accounts") ;
/* assume that accounts is ur dsn */
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
then u can get resultset object with this statement object
hope this helps
prashant

[Faisal Farooqui]

sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver
is it included in JDK 1.3/ 1.4 (beta)? I got an error "class file not found". Would have i to download drivers for JDBC if so where can i find these drivers.
thanks every 1 for reply
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[Bosun Bello]

Faisal, the sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver is included with the JDK. You will need to set up your DSN though so that your program can access your DB. You will need to do this through the ODBC settings in control panel. There is a JDBC tutorial at Sun's site that can help you with this.

Bosun