Mysql Jdbc Driver
It’s very strange if you are still using JDBC in your project for database access because there are lot’s of powerful alternatives like hibernate and iBatis. But it is important to learn basics and it requires learning JDBC first.
In this post, I am giving an example of making a connection with database using MySQL Driver. Read more about types of JDBC drivers.
Handling a connection requires following steps:
- This video shows the MySQL ODBC and JDBC driver installation tasks on Windows before you can use MySQL Connector in Cloud Data Integration, Winter 2019.
- A JDBC example to show you how to connect to a MySQL database with a JDBC driver. Tested with: Java 8; MySQL 5.7; MySQL JDBC driver mysql-connector-java:8.0.16; 1. Download MySQL JDBC Driver.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) JDBC Driver for MySQL is a driver that enables applications to take full advantage of the features of clustered MySQL databases. It is based on and can be used as a drop-in compatible for the MySQL Connector/J driver and is compatible with all MySQL deployments.
- Code language: Java (java) When connecting to MySQL, anything could happens e.g., database server is not available, wrong user name or password, etc. In such cases, JDBC throws a SQLException.Therefore, when you create a Connection object, you should always put it.
MySql JDBC Driver. This article will explain what are JDBC drivers, how to download the MySql JDBC driver and how to connect to MySql using DbSchema Free Database Designer. What are JDBC Drivers? JDBC drivers are Java library files with the extension.jar used by all Java applications to connect to the database.
1) Load the driver
2) Open database connection
3) Close database connection
Let’s follow above steps in code:
1) Load JDBC driver
The easiest way to do this is to use Class.forName() on the class that implements the java.sql.Driver interface. With MySQL Connector/J, the name of this class is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. With this method, you could use an external configuration file to supply the driver class name and driver parameters to use when connecting to a database.
2) Open database connection
After the driver has been registered with the DriverManager, you can obtain a Connection instance that is connected to a particular database by calling DriverManager.getConnection():
Once a Connection is established, it can be used to create Statement and PreparedStatement objects, as well as retrieve metadata about the database.
3) Close database connection
This step is as much important as opening a connection. Any connection left open is waste of resource and lead to various exceptions.
Complete JDBC Connection Example
Let’s see the whole thing working in an example below:
Mysql Jdbc Driver Class Name
That’s all for this topic. Drop a comment if something needs more explanation.
Mysql Jdbc Driver
Happy Learning !!