JDBC-ODBC - Setting Current Database

JDBC for SQL Server - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - MS SQL Server

∟JDBC-ODBC - Setting Current Database

This section describes how to select a database on the SQL Server to be the current database.

When you connect to a SQL Server, it will set the default database associated to the login name as the current database. You can set the current database to be a different database by including another property, database=name, in the connect URL string. Here is my sample program that connects to my SQL Server through the JDBC-ODBC Bridge and sets the current database to "AdventureWorksLT":

/* OdbcSqlServerCurrentDatabase.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
public class OdbcSqlServerCurrentDatabase {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {
      Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
      con = DriverManager.getConnection(
        "jdbc:odbc:SQL_SERVER;user=sa;password=HerongYang;"
        +"database=AdventureWorksLT");

// Checking the database name
      Statement sta = con.createStatement();
      ResultSet res = sta.executeQuery("SELECT DB_NAME()");
      res.next();
      String name = res.getString(1);
      System.out.println("Current database: "+name);

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