Lecture Assignment

Tutorial Week 8
Our readings (lecture notes and video lecture) this week discuss the JDBC (Java Database
connectivity). Write the answers for all questions in the table according to your understanding.
PLEASE USE YOUR OWN WORDS. DO NOT COPY FROM THE WEB.

Questions Answers
1. What are the advantages of developing database The advantages of developing
applications using Java? database applications using Java is
Platform independence Java
program will run on any platform
and access any relational database.

2. Describe the following JDBC interfaces: Driver,
Connection, Statement, and ResultSet.
3. Write a code fragment to load a JDBC driver.
4. Create a connection object using
DriverManager.getConnection() method.
5. Describe the differences between execute,
executeQuery, and executeUpdate.
Driver is to load JDBC drivers
Connection establishing connection
to the database
Statement preparing and executing
an SQL statement
ResultSet is for the output
Class.forName(“JDBCDriverClass”);
Connection connection =
DriverManager.getConnection();
Execute method should be used if
the execution produces
multiple result sets, multiple update
counts, or a
combination of result sets and
update count.

ExecuteQuery method should be

used if the execution
produces a single result set, such
as SQL statement.

ExecuteUpdate method should be

used if the statement
results in a single update count or

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no update count, such as

6. Given SQL statement in the following code.
String SQL = "Update Employees SET age = ?
WHERE id = ?";
- Create a Statement Object
- Create a PreparedStatement Object
SQL INSRT, DELETE, UPDATE, or
DDL statement.
Statement statement =
connection.createStatement();
Statement pstmt =
connection.prepareStatement(SQL);

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