java mysql prepared statement

Question

I\'m trying to do a simple insert into a database with java and its telling me my sql syntax is off. But when I copyed the string I printed out and put it into the sql command i

Answer 1

You're calling the base Statement.executeUpdate(String) method, which has nothing to do with PreparedStatement and simply executes a string of raw SQL.

You need to call statement.executeUpdate() without parameters to use the derived method n PreparedStatement.