Re: connecting to a database
Justin wrote:
I am designing a medical application, since I am a programming novice,
its a startup company with no capital, and I want to keep it easy to
install at Beta sites, I would like to use an Access Database to store
information.
So I really dont know how this stuff is done, but I was thinking about
having a class devoted to exchanging information between the Java
application and the Access DB. I envision a class calling a method
inside the databaseClass and passing some parameters like table names
and a DefualtListModel or an ArrayList to deposit information, or a
table name and a query field entry to retrieve information.
However, I have no idea how to set up a connection. I have spent about
2 hours tonight googling, all I can find are either super small
snippets of code that do me no good, or code that when I cut and paste
into netBeans, lights my screen up red.
So I was wondering if anyone out there had some working code for a
connection to an Access Database that they would be willing to post.
As I've said before, I learn best buy doing, so if I could just get a
start, I could most likely figure everything else on my own.
Java + Access = problems
There are no real JDBC driver for MS Access. Only the
JDBC ODBC bridge. And that is not good.
The syntax to connect is:
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:;Driver={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};Dbq=C:\\somedir\\something.mdb;Uid=xxxx;Pwd=yyyy;");
Arne
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