Java tutorial
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.Statement; public class MainClass { public static Connection getConnection() throws Exception { String driver = "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"; String url = "jdbc:odbc:northwind"; String username = ""; String password = ""; Class.forName(driver); // load JDBC-ODBC driver return DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); } public static void main(String args[]) { Connection conn = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; try { conn = getConnection(); stmt = conn.createStatement(); String query = "select EmployeeID, LastName, FirstName from Employees"; rs = stmt.executeQuery(query); while (rs.next()) { System.out.println(rs.getString("EmployeeID") + " " + rs.getString("LastName") + " " + rs.getString("FirstName")); } } catch (Exception e) { // handle the exception e.printStackTrace(); System.err.println(e.getMessage()); } finally { try { rs.close(); stmt.close(); conn.close(); } catch (Exception ee) { ee.printStackTrace(); } } } }