Re: Need to Learn about the Java ODBC
Arne VajhQj wrote:
kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com wrote:
From February to July of last year I worked for a company where I
wrote C code that accessed a PostgreSQL database with SQL commands and
generated the output my supervisor wanted.
Now I'm working for a different company that doesn't have a C
compiler and doesn't really want me writing C code. The company does
have a Java compiler, and think Java is the better route to maintain-
able code. I'm still working with databases, and as I understand it I
can use the Java ODBC to generate SQL queries to get the information
my colleagues are looking for.
Does anybody on this newsgroup know how I would go about using
Java this way? Is there any documentation on how to use the ODBC?
I've coded with Java before; in fact I have about five years of expe-
rience with Java; but I've never done anything with SQL with it.
Don't use ODBC - use JDBC instead !
Start here:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/
Those points were also made in the answers to the multiposted version of this
question over in comp.lang.java.databases.
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