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Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 7 October 97

Foil 53 Example - Using JDBC-ODBC Bridge - II

From Overview of JDBC and its use with Microsoft Access ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Nancy McCracken(Sangetta Aggarwal, Udayan Parvate, Tom Pulikal)

Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection (

url, "my-user", "my-passwd");

// If we were unable to connect, an exception

// would have been thrown. So, if we get here,

// we are successfully connected to the URL

// Get the DatabaseMetaData object and display

// some information about the connection

DatabaseMetaData dma = con.getMetaData ();

System.out.println("\nConnected to " + dma.getURL());

System.out.println("Driver " +

dma.getDriverName());

System.out.println("Version " +

dma.getDriverVersion());

System.out.println("");