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Creating Connection To Mysql: Try Catch (Exception E)

This document provides steps to connect a Java application to a MySQL database using JDBC. It involves checking if MySQL is installed, downloading the JDBC driver, adding it to the Java classpath, importing necessary packages, creating a connection object using the DriverManager, creating a Statement object from the Connection, executing a query, and iterating through the result set to display data.

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Creating Connection To Mysql: Try Catch (Exception E)

This document provides steps to connect a Java application to a MySQL database using JDBC. It involves checking if MySQL is installed, downloading the JDBC driver, adding it to the Java classpath, importing necessary packages, creating a connection object using the DriverManager, creating a Statement object from the Connection, executing a query, and iterating through the result set to display data.

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Check if MySQL installed (direct installation | package - XAMPP/WAMP) -Default UN=root & PW=””

Download MySQL JDBC Driver

Creating Connection to MySQL

- Create a Java Project in Eclipse (Project Name: JDBC)


- Create New Class (src->r.c) (class name : testDBConnection)

- Add MySQL driver to Java classpath


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# Create a folder (folder name : lib) under Project Folder (R.C -> New Folder)
# Drag and drop downloaded driver into lib folder (select copy files)

# R.C on Project Folder -> Properties, Click on Java Build Path, Click on Add JARs. Select driver in lib

import java.sql.*;

Create a Try - Catch Block (optional)

try{
}
catch(Exception e){
}

Connection to MySQL DB
Connection con1 =
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db_name_optional","root","");

Creating statement
Statement st1= con1.createStatement();

Executing statement
ResultSet result = st1.executeQuery("Select * from student");
Displaying result
while(result.next()){
System.out.println(result.getString("Col1")+result.getString("Col2")+result.getSt
ring("Col3"));
}

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