Java - Getting Data from MySQL database

Question

I\'ve connected to a MySQL database, which contains four fields (the first of which being an ID, the latter ones each containing varchar strings).

I am trying to get the

Answer 1

Something like this would do:

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Connection con = null;
    Statement st = null;
    ResultSet rs = null;

    String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/t";
    String user = "";
    String password = "";

    try {
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
        st = con.createStatement();
        rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1;");

        if (rs.next()) {//get first result
            System.out.println(rs.getString(1));//coloumn 1
        }

    } catch (SQLException ex) {
        Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(Version.class.getName());
        lgr.log(Level.SEVERE, ex.getMessage(), ex);

    } finally {
        try {
            if (rs != null) {
                rs.close();
            }
            if (st != null) {
                st.close();
            }
            if (con != null) {
                con.close();
            }

        } catch (SQLException ex) {
            Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(Version.class.getName());
            lgr.log(Level.WARNING, ex.getMessage(), ex);
        }
    }
}

you can iterate over the results with a while like this:

while(rs.next())
{
System.out.println(rs.getString("Colomn_Name"));//or getString(1) for coloumn 1 etc
}

There are many other great tutorial out there like these to list a few:

• http://www.vogella.com/articles/MySQLJava/article.html
• http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=9

As for your use of Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance(); see JDBC connection- Class.forName vs Class.forName().newInstance? which shows how you can just use Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver") as its not necessary to initiate it yourself

References:

• http://zetcode.com/databases/mysqljavatutorial/