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Using JDBC to insert data from XML into a database

XML data can find a permanent home

Nicholas Chase (nicholas@nicholaschase.com), Writer, Freelance
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Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web site development for companies including Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, and an Oracle instructor. More recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Site Dynamics Interactive Communications in Clearwater, Florida. He is the author of three books on Web development, including Java and XML From Scratch (Que). He loves to hear from readers and can be reached at nicholas@nicholaschase.com.

Summary:  As flexible as XML is with regards to storing data, it is perfect for holding data that is ultimately destined for a database. This tutorial will show you how to access a database using the JDBC API and use SQL to insert data that has been retrieved from an XML file using a predetermined mapping. It also demonstrates the use of updatable ResultSets.

Date:  03 Oct 2001
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (111 KB | 32 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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JDBC/XML data insertion summary

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Although XML files are great for storing small amounts of data, eventually you will want to use XML with a database. This tutorial has discussed the basics of connecting to a database via JDBC, as well as inserting data and creating database transactions.

Data was entered into the database based on an external XML mapping file that determined the database, tables, column names, and element and attribute names in the XML file holding the data to be inserted into the database.

The tutorial also discussed updatable ResultSets, which let you directly alter the data programmatically, based on the predetermined mappings.

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