Java: creating a date object from a string and inserting into MySQL

Question

Anytime I have to handle dates/times in java it makes me sad

I\'m trying to parse a string and turn it into a date object to insert in a preparepared statement. I\'ve b

Answer 1

String to MySQL Date/Time

import java.sql.Date;
import java.sql.Time;

 statement.setDate(4, Date.valueOf("2009-08-26"));
 statement.setTime(5, Time.valueOf("12:04:08"));

Answer 2

My guess is that you mixed java.util.Date and java.sql.Date ...

Answer 3

PreparedStatement.setDate takes a java.sql.Date, not a java.util.Date.

(Out of interest, how come you're not actually seeing this as a compile-time error? Your life will become a lot easier if you can resolve compilation failures without having to get to that point in a test run...)