In general a catalog is a directory which holds information about data sets, file or, a database. Whereas in a database catalog holds the list of all the databases, base tables, views (virtual tables), synonyms, value ranges, indexes, users, and user groups.The getCatalogs() method of the DatabaseMetaData interface returns the ... Read More

The getDatabaseMinorVersion() method of the DatabaseMetaData interface returns the minor version of the underlying database in integer format.To get the list of minor version of the underlying database −Make sure your database is up and running.Register the driver using the registerDriver() method of the DriverManager class. Pass an object of ... Read More

The getDriverVersion() method of the DatabaseMetaData interface returns the version of the JDBC driver used.To get the version of the JDBC driver used to connect with the database.Make sure your database is up and running.Register the driver using the registerDriver() method of the DriverManager class. Pass an object of the ... Read More

This method retrieves the description of the procedure parameter and result columns of a database/catalog. It accepts 4 parameters −catalog - A string parameter representing the name of the catalog (database in general) in which the procedure exists, pass "" to get the description of the primary key columns in ... Read More

When we execute certain SQL queries (SELECT query in general) they return tabular data.The java.sql.ResultSet interface represents such tabular data returned by the SQL statements.i.e. the ResultSet object holds the tabular data returned by the methods that execute the statements which quires the database (executeQuery() method of the Statement interface ... Read More

A string representation of an object can be obtained using the toString() method in Java. This method is overridden so that the object values can be returned.A program that demonstrates this is given as follows:Example Live Democlass Student {    private int rno;    private String name;    public Student(int r, ... Read More

The final static field variable is a constant variable. There is only one copy of this variable available. It is mandatory to initialize the final static field variable explicitly as the default value for it is not provided by the JVM. Also, this variable cannot be reinitialized.A program that initializes ... Read More

All the words that start with a can be found in a string by using regular expressions in Java. The regular expressions are character sequences that can be used to match other strings using a specific pattern syntax. The regular expressions are available in the java.util.regex package which has many ... Read More

The reluctant qualifier starts with the shortest string size as possible. If a match is found by the engine, the process continues to find more matches otherwise the engine adds a character to the searched string section and tries again. This continues until a match is obtained or the string ... Read More

The offset value after the last character is matched from the sequence according to the regex is returned by the method java.util.regex.Matcher.end(). This method requires no arguments. If no match occurs or if the match operation fails then the IllegalStateException is thrown.A program that demonstrates the method Matcher.end() Java regular ... Read More