Counter not working

Question

I'm trying to count the number of categories in my database. The problem is that my Counter "Count" is always returning zero but I have check ths database and there are a few different categories
String theSQL = "Select category From Archive";
int Count = 0;
ResultSet rset;
rset = stmt.executeQuery(theSQL);
while(rset.next() == true)
String Cat = rset.getString("category");
Count ++;
conn.close();
return Count;

Answer 1

I'm trying to count the number of categories in my
database. The problem is that my Counter "Count" is
always returning zero but I have check ths database
and there are a few different categories
String theSQL = "Select category From Archive";
int Count = 0;
ResultSet rset;
rset = stmt.executeQuery(theSQL);
while(rset.next() == true)
String Cat = rset.getString("category");
Count ++;
conn.close();
return Count;Perhaps your while statement never gets executed, i.e. rset.next() never == true. Put an indicator in your while loop to ensure it's executing. I usually do something like
System.out.println("Hey moron, your while loop is executing now and count = ", count);but I tend to be a little self deprecating at times.