Find if an SQLException was thrown because of a duplicate

Question

I have a Java program that is agnostic from the database and I need to know, while inserting, if an SQLException was thrown because of a duplicate key.

If I was using a

Answer 1

I'm assuming you aren't using JDBC or this would be a very simple error lookup.

Do you have a different set of classes for accessing the different databases? If so, you could catch the exception in the database specific classes and throw your own exception type that is shared among all the database types.