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Java Hibernate Basics Data Persistence & ORMs Using JDBC to Connect to a Database

Posted by Martin Batista
Martin Batista
4,606 Points

I'm getting syntax error and I can't find it. Please point me in the right direction

c.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO languages(id,name)VALUES(2,'Java')");

Application.java 
// Load class "org.sqlite.JDBC"
Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC");
// Establish connection to database named "treehouse.db"
try(Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlite:treehouse.db")) {

  c.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO languages(id,name)VALUES(2,'Java')");

} catch(SQLException ex) {

}

2 Answers

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

You need to create a Statement and call executeUpdate on that.

Martin Batista
Martin Batista
4,606 Points

Thank you very much!

Akhter Rasool
Akhter Rasool
8,597 Points
Akhter Rasool
Akhter Rasool
8,597 Points

After the first statement in the try block insert a ';' and then next line you must create a statement in the following manner:

Statement statement (equals) c.createStatement();

this creates a statement where this statement can hold a sql statement and execute that very query.

so the way you execute your sql query is like this:

statement(dot)executeUpdate("INSERT INTO languages(id,name)VALUES(2,'Java')");

Martin Batista
Martin Batista
4,606 Points

I see my mistake now.

Thank you very much!