The JavaTM Tutorial

| Start of Tutorial > Start of Trail > Start of Lesson | Search

Trail: JDBC(TM) Database Access
Lesson: New Features in the JDBC 2.0 API

## Getting Set Up to Use the JDBC 2.0 API

> If you want to run code that employs any of the JDBC 2.0 features, you will need to do the following:
> 1. Download JDK 1.2, following the download instructions
> 2. Install a JDBC driver that implements the JDBC 2.0 features used in the code
> 3. Access a DBMS that implements the JDBC 2.0 features used in the code

> If your driver does not bundle the JDBC 2.0 Standard Extension API (the `javax.sql` package, you can download it from the `JDBC home page` .

> The JDBC 2.0 API enables you to do the following:

> - Scroll forward and backward in a result set or move to a specific row.
> - Make updates to database tables, using methods in the Java programming language instead of using SQL commands.
> - Send multiple SQL statements to the database as a unit, or a batch.

| Start of Tutorial > Start of Trail > Start of Lesson | Search