/* dbexample.java Ira Ray Jenkins This simple example demonstrates connecting to a MySQL database and executing a query. */ import java.sql.*; public class dbexample { public static final String SERVER = "jdbc:mysql://sunapee.cs.dartmouth.edu/"; public static final String USERNAME = "user"; public static final String PASSWORD = "pass"; public static final String DATABASE = "db"; public static final String QUERY = "SELECT * FROM instructor;"; public static void main(String[] args) { Connection con = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet res = null; int numColumns = 0; // attempt to connect to db try { // load mysql driver Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance(); // initialize connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(SERVER+DATABASE, USERNAME, PASSWORD); System.out.println("Connection established."); // initialize a query statement stmt = con.createStatement(); // query db and save results res = stmt.executeQuery(QUERY); System.out.format("Query executed: '%s'\n\nResults:\n", QUERY); // the result set contains metadata numColumns = res.getMetaData().getColumnCount(); // print table header for(int i = 1; i <= numColumns; i++) { System.out.format("%-12s", res.getMetaData().getColumnName(i)); } System.out.println("\n--------------------------------------------"); // iterate through results while(res.next()) { for(int i = 1; i <= numColumns; i++) { System.out.format("%-12s", res.getObject(i)); } System.out.println(""); } } catch (SQLException e ) { // catch SQL errors System.err.format("SQL Error: %s", e.getMessage()); } catch (Exception e) { // anything else e.printStackTrace(); } finally { // cleanup try { con.close(); stmt.close(); res.close(); System.out.print("\nConnection terminated.\n"); } catch (Exception e) { /* ignore cleanup errors */ } } } }