Java tutorial
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; public class SimpleProgramToAccessOracleDatabase { public static Connection getConnection() throws Exception { // load the Oracle JDBC Driver Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"); // define database connection parameters return DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:database", "userName", "password"); } public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException { Connection conn = null; // connection object Statement stmt = null; // statement object ResultSet rs = null; // result set object try { conn = getConnection(); // without Connection, can not do much // create a statement: This object will be used for executing // a static SQL statement and returning the results it produces. stmt = conn.createStatement(); // start a transaction conn.setAutoCommit(false); // create a table called cats_tricks stmt.executeUpdate("CREATE TABLE cats_tricks " + "(name VARCHAR2(30), trick VARCHAR2(30))"); // insert two new records to the cats_tricks table stmt.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO cats_tricks VALUES('mono', 'r')"); stmt.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO cats_tricks VALUES('mono', 'j')"); // commit the transaction conn.commit(); // set auto commit to true (from now on every single // statement will be treated as a single transaction conn.setAutoCommit(true); // get all of the the records from the cats_tricks table rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT name, trick FROM cats_tricks"); // iterate the result set and get one row at a time while (rs.next()) { String name = rs.getString(1); // 1st column in query String trick = rs.getString(2); // 2nd column in query System.out.println("name=" + name); System.out.println("trick=" + trick); System.out.println("=========="); } } catch (ClassNotFoundException ce) { // if the driver class not found, then we will be here System.out.println(ce.getMessage()); } catch (SQLException e) { // something went wrong, we are handling the exception here if (conn != null) { conn.rollback(); conn.setAutoCommit(true); } System.out.println("--- SQLException caught ---"); // iterate and get all of the errors as much as possible. while (e != null) { System.out.println("Message : " + e.getMessage()); System.out.println("SQLState : " + e.getSQLState()); System.out.println("ErrorCode : " + e.getErrorCode()); System.out.println("---"); e = e.getNextException(); } } finally { // close db resources try { rs.close(); stmt.close(); conn.close(); } catch (Exception e) { } } } }