Q. What is JDBC?
A. JDBC is
Java Database Connectivity. It allows you to have a single API for connecting to, manipulating, and retrieving information from a multitude of Databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.
JDBC home page
Please note that for arcane marketing reasons JDBC is officially NOT an acronym.
Q. Where do I start learning about JDBC?
A. The most obvious and best place to start is the
Java JDBC Tutorial. Another (extensive) JDBC tutorial can be found
here. See the
JDBC forum when you have questions reading.
Q. What databases does JDBC support?
A. Most all Database Vendors will have a JDBC Driver for their Database. Oracle provides a list of companies that have
JDBC compatible products.
Q. What are the differences between the 4 types of drivers?
For a comparison of the differences between types of drivers see
JDBCDriverTypeComparison
The "official" description of the 4 Driver types may be
found here.
Q: Which free drivers are available for Microsoft SQLServer?
This thread discusses differences between the various options.
Microsoft SQLServer 2000, SQLServer 2005 and SQLServer 2008
Q: Which drivers are available for Microsoft Access?
UCanAccess (free)HXTT (commercial)easysoft (commercial)cdata (commercial)
Up until Java 7 it was possible to use ODBC in Java to connect to Access, but since Java 8 the driver has been removed from the JRE.
Q: Which Java databases are available?
There's a good list at
http://java-source.net/open-source/database-engines. Derby and HSQLDB are the most commonly used ones.
Q: What are the differences between the various versions of JDBC?
What's new in JDBC 3.0 (Java 1.4)What's new in JDBC 4.0 (Note that the DataSet class is not part of JDBC 4.)JDBC 4.0 Enhancements in Java SE 6 (Note that the DataSet class is not part of JDBC 4.)JDBC 4.1 was added in Java 7
Q: Should I store my image on the database or in a file?
See
https://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0701/0701168.pdf for resarch on this.
Q: Which Oracle driver should I use?
See the OTN article
here
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