JDBC Interview Questions and Answers

How can I investigate the parameters to send into and receive from a database stored procedure?
Use the method getProcedureColumns in interface DatabaseMetaData to probe a stored procedure for metadata. The exact usage is described in the code below.

NOTE! This method can only discover parameter values. For databases where a returning ResultSet is created simply by executing a SELECT statement within a stored procedure (thus not sending the return ResultSet to the java application via a declared parameter), the real return value of the stored procedure cannot be detected. This is a weakness for the JDBC metadata mining which is especially present when handling Transact-SQL databases such as those produced by SyBase and Microsoft.

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
// Load the database driver - in this case, we
// use the Jdbc/Odbc bridge driver.
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver")
;
// Open a connection to the database
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("[jdbcURL]",
"[login]", "[passwd]");

// Get DatabaseMetaData
DatabaseMetaData dbmd = conn.getMetaData();

// Get all column definitions for procedure "getFoodsEaten" in
// schema "testlogin" and catalog "dbo".
System.out.println("Procedures are called '" + dbmd.getProcedureTerm() +"' in the DBMS.");
ResultSet rs = dbmd.getProcedureColumns("test", "dbo", "getFoodsEaten", "%");

// Printout table data
while(rs.next())
{
// Get procedure metadata
String dbProcedureCatalog = rs.getString(1);
String dbProcedureSchema = rs.getString(2);
String dbProcedureName = rs.getString(3);
String dbColumnName = rs.getString(4);
short dbColumnReturn = rs.getShort(5);
String dbColumnReturnTypeName = rs.getString(7);
int dbColumnPrecision = rs.getInt(8);
int dbColumnByteLength = rs.getInt(9);
short dbColumnScale = rs.getShort(10);
short dbColumnRadix = rs.getShort(11);
String dbColumnRemarks = rs.getString(13);

// Interpret the return type (readable for humans)
String procReturn = null;

switch(dbColumnReturn)
{
case DatabaseMetaData.procedureColumnIn:
procReturn = "In";
break;
case DatabaseMetaData.procedureColumnOut:
procReturn = "Out";
break;
case DatabaseMetaData.procedureColumnInOut:
procReturn = "In/Out";
break;
case DatabaseMetaData.procedureColumnReturn:
procReturn = "return value";
break;
case DatabaseMetaData.procedureColumnResult:
procReturn = "return ResultSet";
default:
procReturn = "Unknown";
}

// Printout
System.out.println("Procedure: " + dbProcedureCatalog + "." + dbProcedureSchema
+ "." + dbProcedureName);
System.out.println(" ColumnName [ColumnType(ColumnPrecision)]: " + dbColumnName
+ " [" + dbColumnReturnTypeName + "(" + dbColumnPrecision + ")]");
System.out.println(" ColumnReturns: " + procReturn + "(" + dbColumnReturnTypeName + ")");
System.out.println(" Radix: " + dbColumnRadix + ", Scale: " + dbColumnScale);
System.out.println(" Remarks: " + dbColumnRemarks);
}

// Close database resources
rs.close();
conn.close();
}

How do I check what table-like database objects (table, view, temporary table, alias) are present in a particular database?
Use java.sql.DatabaseMetaData to probe the database for metadata. Use the getTables method to retrieve information about all database objects (i.e. tables, views, system tables, temporary global or local tables or aliases). The exact usage is described in the code below.

NOTE! Certain JDBC drivers throw IllegalCursorStateExceptions when you try to access fields in the ResultSet in the wrong order (i.e. not consecutively). Thus, you should not change the order in which you retrieve the metadata from the ResultSet.

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
// Load the database driver - in this case, we
// use the Jdbc/Odbc bridge driver.
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");

// Open a connection to the database
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("[jdbcURL]",
"[login]", "[passwd]");

// Get DatabaseMetaData
DatabaseMetaData dbmd = conn.getMetaData();

// Get all dbObjects. Replace the last argument in the getTables
// method with objectCategories below to obtain only database
// tables. (Sending in null retrievs all dbObjects).
String[] objectCategories = {"TABLE"};
ResultSet rs = dbmd.getTables(null, null, "%", null);

// Printout table data
while(rs.next())
{
// Get dbObject metadata
String dbObjectCatalog = rs.getString(1);
String dbObjectSchema = rs.getString(2);
String dbObjectName = rs.getString(3);
String dbObjectType = rs.getString(4);

// Printout
System.out.println("" + dbObjectType + ": " + dbObjectName);
System.out.println(" Catalog: " + dbObjectCatalog);
System.out.println(" Schema: " + dbObjectSchema);
}

// Close database resources
rs.close();
conn.close();
}

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