Help with sql statements and Java

Question

Hi,
How can I create a string kind of like this
Select * From Students Where Name Like "Bob Burns";
As the sql statement might indicate I am using MS Access. I seem to be having problems with the double quotes required by the Like operator in MS Access, Java views that as a beginning of a string as oppposed to an actual string value.

Answer 1

Like this:
    Connection connection = null;
    PreparedStatement stmt = null;
    ResultSet res = null;
    try  {
        connection = ...get from connection pool...;
        String sql = "select ... from ... where name like ?";
        stmt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
        stmt.setObject(1, "%Bob%", java.sql.Types.VARCHAR);
        res = stmt.executeQuery();
        while (res.next()) { ...the usual...; }
    } finally {
        ...close res, stmt & return connection to pool...
    }You can try stmt.setString() instead of setObject() but rumor has it that some mssql drivers have a bug that makes setString() not work with "like", but oddly enough setObject() works.