Java and Databases CS-328 Dick Steflik

Database Drivers Think of a database as just another device connected to your computer like other devices it has a driver program to relieves you of having to do low level programming to use the database the driver provides you with a high level api to the database

ODBC Open Data Base Connectivity Developed by Microsoft for the Windows platform as the way for Windows applications to access Microsoft databases (SQL Server, FoxPro, Access) Has become an industry standard Most data base vendors supply native, odbc, and jdbc drivers for their data base products

JDBC Architecture Java Application JDBC API Data Base Drivers AccessSQL Server DB2InformixMySQLSybase

JDBC Driver Types Type 1 – JDBC-ODBC Bridge Type 2 –Native API, partially java Type 3 –JDBC Network Driver, partially java Type 4 –100% Java

Type 1 Drivers Translate JDBC into ODBC and use Windows ODBC built in drivers ODBC must be set up on every client – driver must be physically on each machine for both java applications and applets –for server side servlets ODBC must be set up on web server driver sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc provided by JavaSoft with JDK

Type 1 Driver (cont.) ClientJDBC- ODBC ODBCDB Vendor Library

Type 2 Drivers Converts JDBC to data base vendors native SQL calls like Type 1 drivers; requires installation of binaries on each client

Type 2 Drivers (cont.) Client JDBC Vendor Library DB

Type 3 Drivers Translates JDBC to a DBMS independent network protocol Typically talks directly with a middleware product which in turn talks to the RDBMS –Jaguar, DBAnywhere, SequeLink Most flexible driver type all java

Type 3 Drivers (cont.) ClientJDBC Vendor Middleware DB Tier 1Tier 2 Tier 3

Type 4 Drivers Converts JDBC directly to native API used by the RDBMS compiles into the application, applet or servlet; doesn’t require anything to be installed on client machine, except JVM handiest driver type

Type 4 Drivers (cont.) Client JDBCDB

Structured Query Language Developed by C. Date for Relational Data Base Management Systems (RDBMS) Simple Declarative Language –has no program control statements

SQL Two categories of commands –Data Manipulation Commands deal with: –RETRIEVING DATA –MAINTAINING DATA (ADDING, UPDATING,DELETING –Data Definition Commands DEAL WITH: –CREATING DATABASE OBJECTS (TABLES,VIEWS) –Object organization and attributes

Referential Integrity Rules to insure that table data stays accurate and accessible –rows in a table should be unique one column should contain no duplicate data primary key –column values cannot contain repeating groups or arrays –null is different than space and zero, 2 null values are not considered equal

Data Manipulation Commands Select - query and display data from a database Insert - a new row into a table Update - modify a column in a table Delete a row from a table

Select Select (column list) from (sources) where (conditions) order by (ocolumn list) column list - comma separated list of names of columns to be in output –Ex. ssn, lastname, firstname,gpa –can contain literals to be included in output Ex. Ssn,”~”,lastname,”~”,firstname sources - name(s) of table(s) to retrieve data from conditions (optional) - conditions for selections –lastname like “S%” –(lastname = “Steflik) and (firstname like “R%”) ocolumn list (optional)- list of columns that output should be ordered by Ex –select * from student –select lastname,fristname from student where gpa > 3.0 –select lastname,firstname from student order by lastname,firstname

Select - joined tables Two tables may be joined and viewed as a single data source is the both have a common column suppose we have 2 tables: Inventory and category and each has a column called catg_code In category catg_code is unique and is the primary key

Select - joined tables (cont.) P_noCatg_codeqtyCatg_codedescr Inventory Category join

Select - joined tables (cont.) To retrieve all of the part numbers and the name of the category to which the part belongs: –select inventory.p_no category.descr from inventroy, category –select a.p_no,” “,b.descr from a inventory, b category

Insert Add a row to a table –insert into category values(“IGN”,”Ignition System”) use jdbc execute Update method –ex. Stmt.executeUpdate(“insert into Category values(‘IGN’,’Ignition System’)”);

Update Modify an existing row in a table –update category set descr = “Ignition Subsystem” where catg_code = “IGN” Use jdbc executeUpdate method –String s = “ update category set descr = ‘Ignition Subsystem’ where catg_code = ‘IGN’ ”; –stmt.executeUpdate(s);

Delete Remove a row from a table –delete from category where catg_code = “IGN” remove the IGN category –delete from category where catg_code like “I%” remove all rows where catg_code starts with an “I”

Data Definition Commands Create table –add a table to a database Drop Table –remove a table from a database Alter Table –add or delete column(s)