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Java Database Connectivity With MySQL

To connect a Java application to a MySQL database, the following steps are required: 1. Specify the MySQL driver class, connection URL, username, and password. The driver class is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver and the URL follows the format jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/databasename. 2. Create a table in the database using SQL commands if needed. 3. Write Java code importing java.sql packages and using the DriverManager to get a connection using the specified details. 4. Execute queries on the connection such as SELECT to retrieve data from the table.

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Java Database Connectivity With MySQL

To connect a Java application to a MySQL database, the following steps are required: 1. Specify the MySQL driver class, connection URL, username, and password. The driver class is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver and the URL follows the format jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/databasename. 2. Create a table in the database using SQL commands if needed. 3. Write Java code importing java.sql packages and using the DriverManager to get a connection using the specified details. 4. Execute queries on the connection such as SELECT to retrieve data from the table.

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Java Database Connectivity with MySQL

To connect Java application with the MySQL database, we need to follow 5 following
steps.

In this example we are using MySql as the database. So we need to know following
informations for the mysql database:

1. Driver class: The driver class for the mysql database


is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.
2. Connection URL: The connection URL for the mysql database
is jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonoo where jdbc is the API, mysql is the
database, localhost is the server name on which mysql is running, we may also
use IP address, 3306 is the port number and sonoo is the database name. We
may use any database, in such case, we need to replace the sonoo with our
database name.
3. Username: The default username for the mysql database is root.
4. Password: It is the password given by the user at the time of installing the
mysql database. In this example, we are going to use root as the password.

Let's first create a table in the mysql database, but before creating table, we need to
create database first.

1. create database sonoo;  
2. use sonoo;  
3. create table emp(id int(10),name varchar(40),age int(3));  

Example to Connect Java Application with mysql database


In this example, sonoo is the database name, root is the username and password
both.

1. import java.sql.*;  
2. class MysqlCon{  
3. public static void main(String args[]){  
4. try{  
5. Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");  
6. Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection(  
7. "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonoo","root","root");  
8. //here sonoo is database name, root is username and password  
9. Statement stmt=con.createStatement();  
10. ResultSet rs=stmt.executeQuery("select * from emp");  
11. while(rs.next())  
12. System.out.println(rs.getInt(1)+"  "+rs.getString(2)+"  "+rs.getString(3));  
13. con.close();  
14. }catch(Exception e){ System.out.println(e);}  
15. }  
16. }  
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The above example will fetch all the records of emp table.

To connect java application with the mysql database, mysqlconnector.jar file is


required to be loaded.

download the jar file mysql-connector.jar

Two ways to load the jar file:

1. Paste the mysqlconnector.jar file in jre/lib/ext folder


2. Set classpath

1) Paste the mysqlconnector.jar file in JRE/lib/ext folder:


Download the mysqlconnector.jar file. Go to jre/lib/ext folder and paste the jar file here.

2) Set classpath:
There are two ways to set the classpath:
o temporary
o permanent

How to set the temporary classpath


open command prompt and write:
1. C:>set classpath=c:\folder\mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar;.;  
How to set the permanent classpath
Go to environment variable then click on new tab. In variable name
write classpath and in variable value paste the path to the mysqlconnector.jar file by
appending mysqlconnector.jar;.; as C:\folder\mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar;.;

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