JDBC--the Java Database Connectivity specification--is a complex set of
application programming interfaces (APIs) that developers need to
understand if they want their Java applications to work with databases.
JDBC is so complex that even the most experienced developers need to
refresh their memories from time to time on specific methods and
details. But, practically speaking, who wants to stop and thumb through
a weighty tutorial volume each time a question arises? The answer is the
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look-ups for all methods of the standard JDBC classes. These include
concise reviews of the procedures for common JDBC tasks such as
connecting to a database, executing stored procedures, executing DDL and
the like. You'll find documentation of the connect string formats for
the most common databases, including Oracle, SQL-Server, and PostgreSQL.
You'll even find information on working with large objects, and on using
SQL99 user defined datatypes to work with object-relational data.
Searching for this sort of material through large tutorials is
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