Java tutorial
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.PreparedStatement; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; public class CountRecordsUsingPreparedStatement { public static Connection getConnection() throws Exception { String driver = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"; String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:databaseName"; String username = "name"; String password = "password"; Class.forName(driver); Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); return conn; } public static void main(String[] args) { ResultSet rs = null; Connection conn = null; PreparedStatement pstmt = null; try { conn = getConnection(); String query = "select count(*) from tableName"; pstmt = conn.prepareStatement(query); rs = pstmt.executeQuery(); if (rs.next()) { int numberOfRows = rs.getInt(1); System.out.println("numberOfRows= " + numberOfRows); } else { System.out.println("error: could not get the record counts"); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { rs.close(); pstmt.close(); conn.close(); } catch (SQLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } }