JDBC Connection to MS-Access

JDBC connection to Microsoft Access

Introduction

In this article, we make a connection using JDBC to a Microsoft Access database. This connection is made with the help of a JdbcOdbc driver. You need to use the following steps for making a connection to the database.

Creating a Database

Step 1: Open Microsoft Access and select Blank database option and give the database name as File name option

Step 2: Create a table and insert your data into the table

Step 3: Save the table with the desired name; in this article, we save the following records with the table name student.

Now Creating DSN of your database

Step 4: Open your Control Panel and then select Administrative Tools.

Step 5 : Click on Data Source(ODBC)-->System DSN.

Step 6: Now click on add option for making a new DSN.select Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb. *.accdb) and then click on Finish

Step 7: Make your desired Data Source Name and then click on the Select option, for example in this article we use the name mydsn

Step 8: Now you select your data source file for storing it and then click ok and then click on Create and Finish

Step 9: Java program code

import java.sql.*;
public class MsAcessODBC {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// loading thejdbc odbc driver
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
// creating connection toth data base
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:mydsn", "", "");
Statement st = con.createStatement();
// create an execute sql command on database
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("Select * from student order by rollno asc");
ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
// this getColumnCount reurn the number of column in the selected table
int numberOfColumns = rsmd.getColumnCount();
// while loop and with while loop code use for print the data
while (rs.next()) {
for (int i = 1; i <= numberOfColumns; i++) {
if (i > 1)
System.out.print(", ");
String columnValue = rs.getString(i);
System.out.print(columnValue);
}
System.out.println("");
}
st.close();
con.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.err.print("Exception: ");
System.err.println(ex.getMessage());
}
}
}

OUTPUT

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