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

## Making Updates to Updatable Result Sets

> Another new feature in the JDBC 2.0 API is the ability to update rows in a result set using methods in the Java programming language rather than having to send an SQL command. But before you can take advantage of this capability, you need to create a `ResultSet` object that is updatable. In order to do this, you supply the `ResultSet` constant `CONCUR_UPDATABLE` to the `createStatement` method, as you have seen in previous examples. The `Statement` object it creates will produce an updatable `ResultSet` object each time it executes a query. The following code fragment illustrates creating the updatable `ResultSet` object `uprs` . Note that the code also makes `uprs` scrollable. An updatable `ResultSet` object does not necessarily have to be scrollable, but when you are making changes to a result set, you generally want to be able to move around in it. With a scrollable result set, you can move to rows you want to change, and if the type is `TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE`, you can get the new value in a row after you have changed it.

> >     Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mySubprotocol:mySubName");
> >     Statement stmt = con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE,
> >     				     ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
> >     ResultSet uprs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT COF_NAME, PRICE FROM COFFEES");

> The `ResultSet` object `uprs` might look something like this:

> >     COF_NAME		PRICE
> >     ------------------      -----
> >     Colombian		7.99
> >     French_Roast		8.99
> >     Espresso		9.99
> >     Colombian_Decaf	  	8.99
> >     French_Roast_Decaf	9.99

> We can now use the new JDBC 2.0 methods in the `ResultSet` interface to insert a new row into `uprs` , delete an existing row from `uprs` , or modify a column value in `uprs` .

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