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∟Microsoft JDBC Driver - Query Statements and Result Sets

∟Receiving ResultSet Objects from executeQuery

This section describes how to receive the ResultSet object returning from the executeQuery() method.

When you execute a SQL SELECT statement with the executeQuery() method, you need receive the returning ResultSet object with a variable. This ResultSet object variable represents the data that are generated by the SELECT query statement.

There are two types of methods available on the ResultSet object:

• Moving the internal pointer to set a specific row as the current row of the result set. For example, next() sets the next row as the current row.
• Retrieving the value from a specific field of the current row. For example, getInt(1) retrieves the value from the first field as an integer. getint("Age") retrieves the value from a field named as "Age".

The tutorial below shows you how to receive the ResultSet object and the value from the first column of the first row:

/* GetServerDate.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
public class GetServerDate {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {

// Obtaining a connection to SQL Server
      con = DriverManager.getConnection(
          "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost\\SQLEXPRESS;"
        + "user=herong;password=T0pSecret;"
        + "database=AdventureWorks2019");

// Checking the database name
      Statement sta = con.createStatement();
      ResultSet res = sta.executeQuery("SELECT GETDATE()");
      res.next();
      Date today = res.getDate(1);
      System.out.println("Server date: "+today);

      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

If you run this program, you will get something like this:

herong> java -cp .;mssql-jdbc-9.4.1.jre16.jar GetServerDate.java

Server date: 2022-01-01

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction

 JDK (Java SE) Installation

 Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition

 Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server

►Microsoft JDBC Driver - Query Statements and Result Sets

 Commonly Used JDBC Class Methods

 Calling createStatement() and executeQuery

►Receiving ResultSet Objects from executeQuery

 Closing ResultSet Objects - res.close()

 Looping through ResultSet with res.next()

 Retrieving Field Values using res.get*() Methods

 Using ResultSetMetaData Objects to List All Fields

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DatabaseMetaData Object

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DDL Statements

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DML Statements

 SQL Server - PreparedStatement

 SQL Server CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 SQL Server BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Using Connection Pool with JDBC

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - Flat Text Files

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - MS Access

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - MS SQL Server

 Archived Tutorials

 References

 Full Version in PDF/EPUB

Receiving ResultSet Objects from executeQuery - Updated in 2024, by Herong Yang