A Quick and Dirty JDBC Session
Naturally I don't know what database you have access to, so on this book's Web site I'm using two standards: Microsoft Access and Java InstantDB. The exercises should work with any SQL database, as long as it has JDBC support. You may have to tweak the statements a little, but after this chapter you should feel comfortable with that.
For Microsoft Access we're going to use the JDBC–ODBC bridge, which integrates ODBC-compliant databases with Java applications. (ODBC stands for Open Database Connectivity.) Keep in mind that there are different levels of compliance. These levels range from bridges to native client support to pure Java. I picked Access because it's ODBC compliant and because you're likely to have at ...
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