MySQL Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 4.20, by Dr. Herong Yang

MySQL Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Java Programs and MySQL Servers

∟Getting Driver and Server Information

Once you have created a database connection object, you can obtain some version information about the JDBC driver and database server through the DatabaseMetaData object as shown in the following program:

/**
 * MySqlDatabaseInfo.java
 * Copyright (c) 2015, HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;
public class MySqlDatabaseInfo {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {

// Setting up the DataSource object
      com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource ds 
        = new com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource();
      ds.setServerName("localhost");
      ds.setPortNumber(3306);
      ds.setDatabaseName("test");
      ds.setUser("root");
      ds.setPassword("TopSecret");

// Getting a connection object
      con = ds.getConnection();
      
// Getting driver and database info
      DatabaseMetaData meta = con.getMetaData();
      System.out.println("Server name: " 
        + meta.getDatabaseProductName());
      System.out.println("Server version: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductVersion());
      System.out.println("Driver name: "
        + meta.getDriverName());
      System.out.println("Driver version: "
        + meta.getDriverVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC major version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMajorVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC minor version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMinorVersion());

// Closing the connection
      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println("Exception: "+e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}

The output confirms that JDBC driver mysql-connector-java-5.1.38 a JDBC 4.0 driver:

C:\herong>javac -cp .;\local\lib\mysql-connector-java-5.1.38-bin.jar
  MySqlDatabaseInfo.java

C:\herong>java -cp .;\local\lib\mysql-connector-java-5.1.38-bin.jar
  MySqlDatabaseInfo

Server name: MySQL
Server version: 5.7.10-log
Driver name: MySQL Connector Java
Driver version: mysql-connector-java-5.1.38 
   ( Revision: fe541c166cec739c74cc727c5da96c1028b4834a )
JDBC major version: 4
JDBC minor version: 0

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of SQL

 MySQL Introduction and Installation

 Introduction of MySQL Programs

 Perl Programs and MySQL Servers

 PHP Programs and MySQL Servers

►Java Programs and MySQL Servers

 MySQL Connector/J - Download and Installation

 Loading JDBC Driver Class - com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

 JDBC Driver Connection URL

 Creating Connections with DataSource Class

►Getting Driver and Server Information

 Creating Tables with AUTO_INCREMENT Columns

 "INSERT INTO" Statements

 Datatypes and Data Literals

 Operations and Expressions

 Character Strings and Bit Strings

 Commonly Used Functions

 Table Column Types for Different Types of Values

 Using DDL to Create Tables and Indexes

 Using DML to Insert, Update and Delete Records

 Using SELECT to Query Database

 Transaction Management and Isolation Levels

 Locks Used in MySQL

 Defining and Calling Stored Procedures

 Variables, Loops and Cursors Used in Stored Procedures

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version

Getting Driver and Server Information - Updated in 2015, by Dr. Herong Yang