Creating a Table with an IDENTITY Column

This section describes how to create a new table with an IDENTITY column for PreparedStatement testing.

IDENTITY column is a nice feature provided by SQL Server that provides auto-incremented sequence values for the specified column in a table. Usually, a primary key column is defined as an IDENTITY column.

In order to try IDENTITY columns and provide a table for PreparedStatement tests, I wrote the following program to create a table called "Profile" with the primary key column defined as an IDENTITY column:

/* SqlServerIdentityColumn.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;
public class SqlServerIdentityColumn {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {
      com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource ds
        = new com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource();
      ds.setServerName("localhost");
//      ds.setPortNumber(60782);
      ds.setInstanceName("SQLEXPRESS");
      ds.setDatabaseName("AdventureWorks2014");
      ds.setUser("Herong");
      ds.setPassword("T0pSecret");
      con = ds.getConnection();

// Creating a database table
      Statement sta = con.createStatement();
      int count = sta.executeUpdate(
        "CREATE TABLE Profile ("
        + " ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY,"
        + " FirstName VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,"
        + " LastName VARCHAR(20),"
        + " Point REAL DEFAULT 0.0,"
        + " BirthDate DATETIME DEFAULT '1999-12-31',"
        + " ModTime DATETIME DEFAULT '2014-12-31 23:59:59.999')");
      System.out.println("Table created.");
      sta.close();

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

The test program executed correctly:

herong> Progra~1\java\jdk1.8.0_45\bin\javac
   -cp .;\local\lib\sqljdbc42.jar SqlServerIdentityColumn.java

herong> Progra~1\java\jdk1.8.0_45\bin\java
   -cp .;\local\lib\sqljdbc42.jar SqlServerIdentityColumn
Table created.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction

 JDK (Java SE) Installation

 Installing and Running Java DB - Derby

 Derby (Java DB) JDBC Driver

 Derby (Java DB) JDBC DataSource Objects

 Java DB (Derby) - DML Statements

 Java DB (Derby) - ResultSet Objects of Queries

 Java DB (Derby) - PreparedStatement

 MySQL Installation on Windows

 MySQL JDBC Driver (MySQL Connector/J)

 MySQL - PreparedStatement

 MySQL - Reference Implementation of JdbcRowSet

 MySQL - JBDC CallableStatement

 MySQL CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 MySQL BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Oracle Express Edition Installation on Windows

 Oracle JDBC Drivers

 Oracle - Reference Implementation of JdbcRowSet

 Oracle - PreparedStatement

 Oracle - JBDC CallableStatement

 Oracle CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 Oracle BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition

 Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - Query Statements and Result Sets

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DatabaseMetaData Object

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DDL Statements

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DML Statements

SQL Server - PreparedStatement

 Create a New User in SQL Server

Creating a Table with an IDENTITY Column

 Inserting Rows to the Test Table

 PreparedStatement Overview

 PreparedStatement with Parameters

 PreparedStatement in Batch Mode

 Performance of Inserting Rows with a PreparedStatement

 Performance of Inserting Rows with a Regular Statement

 Performance of Inserting Rows with a ResultSet

 SQL Server CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 SQL Server BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 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

 Summary of JDBC Drivers and Database Servers

 Additional Tutorial Notes to Be Added

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

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