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Rational Application Development certification prep, Part 4: Working with databases

Gregory Scott (glscott1@us.ibm.com), Senior Learning Specialist, IBM
Greg is an instructor in private and public national settings, internal and external to IBM, primarily related to Java client-side and server-side (J2EE) programming. Specializations include servlets, JSPs, Enterprise JavaBeans, portlets, XML and Web Services.

Summary:  This is the fourth in a series of seven tutorials created to help you prepare for the IBM Certification Test 255, Developing with IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software V6. This tutorial uses the Data perspective in Rational Application Developer 6. It shows you how to connect from Application Developer to the database, sample the data from within Application Developer, and use visual tools to create SQL statements and to run them.

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Date:  28 Mar 2006
Level:  Introductory
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About this series

Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software is a product of the IBM Software Development Platform that lets you quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile and deploy Web, Web services, Java™, J2EE, and portal applications. This series of seven tutorials helps you prepare to take the IBM certification Test 255, Developing with IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6 to become an IBM Certified Associate Developer. This certification targets entry level developers and is intended for new adopters of IBM Rational Web Developer or IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0, specifically professionals and students entering into Web development using IBM products.

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About this tutorial

This tutorial uses the Data (often called the database) perspective in Rational Application Developer 6 (hereafter Application Developer). You can work in the Data perspective of Application Developer to accomplish all, or many, of the typical tasks involved with databases: creating tables, columns, SQL and DDL statements, and primary and foreign keys.

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Objectives

Application Developer offers the ability to work easily with databases without having to open other tools, and this tutorial highlights the relevant features. After completing this tutorial, you should be able to create a database instance, tables, columns, and primary and foreign keys along with some sample data, from within the Data perspective and directly from within Cloudscape, the database that comes with Application Developer. You should also know how to connect from Application Developer to the database, sample the data from within Application Developer, and use visual programming features to create SQL statements and to run them. Finally, you should be able to use JDBC in a servlet originally created in Tutorial 3 to retrieve data from the tables that you created and populated.

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Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes you have gone through the three previous tutorials in this series or have equivalent knowledge with Application Developer. A basic grasp of relational database fundamentals is helpful, but not required.

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System requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, install Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software or Rational Web Developer for WebSphere Software. Download a free trial version of Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software if you don't have it installed.

The hardware and software requirements for this software can be located at IBM Rational Application Developer System Requirements.

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