Table of Contents

Introducing JDBC.- Exploring JDBC’s Novel Feature.- Making Database Connections.- Making Database Connections Using DataSource.- Exploring the ResultSet Interface.- Working with Scrollable and Updatable ResultSet Objects.- Reading and Writing BLOBs.- Reading and Writing CLOBs.- Working with Date, Time, and Timestamp in JDBC.- Handling Exceptions in JDBC.- Exploring the Statement.- Working with the PreparedStatement.- Passing Input Parameters to PreparedStatement.- Exploring JDBC Utilities.

About the Author

Mahmoud Parsian, Ph.D. is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and senior lead software engineer for AskJeeves.com, and he has expertise in Java database programming and development. His honors include the following: Ask Jeeves Bright Star Award, Octopus Award for successive release of the Octopus software, Cisco Systems Leadership Award, Individual Achievement Award, and four Specialist of the Quarter awards. Parsian has also received numerous commendation letters from customers regarding his outstanding performance and leadership on customer projects.