Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 7, "Creating a Shared Database," of Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit [Microsoft Press, 2003, ISBN: 0735619220]. It has been edited for ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To connect to a database like MySQL or HyperSQL Database (HSQLDB) in Java, you use JDBC. And if ...

The first thing you'll learn in this PostgreSQL and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) tutorial is that most developers simply call it Postgres. The two terms are both interchangeable and official. Use ...

I am working on a database application that needs to access some .dbf files that were created with FoxPro. Are there special drivers I am going to need to use JDBC to access these files through Java?

Java has become increasingly popular as a server-side programming language for database-powered Web applications. Those applications’ business logic-handling methods must work with data from backend ...