SQL query works in access 2000 but not through JDBC

Question

Hello to all as my first posted message, I have a bit of a pickle on my hands. I have a query which is critical to for my application to function.
In Access 2000
SELECT sb.SeatName
FROM SeatBooking sb, Movie m, MovieSession ms, Booking b
WHERE m.MovieId = ms.MovieId
AND ms.MovieSessionId = b.MovieSessionId
AND b.BookingId = sb.BookingId
AND ms.DateOfSession = #2003/04/16 07:15:00 PM#;
This query works fine. When I insert it into my code
String query = "SELECT sb.SeatName \n" +
"FROM SeatBooking sb, Movie m, MovieSession ms, Booking b \n" +
"WHERE m.MovieId = ms.MovieId \n" +
"AND ms.MovieSessionId = b.MovieSessionId \n" +
"AND b.BookingId = sb.BookingId \n" +
"AND ms.DateOfSession = #" +
cp.getMovieSessionAt(i).getTrueTimeOfSession() + "#;";
The last line of code returns #2003/04/16 07:15:00 PM#; Which is the exact same as in Access.
To rule out some possibilities
- there are other less complicated queries which access the same database but work fine. so my code seems to be ok
- I have tried to use Format() on ms.DateOfSession to match the return value of the java statement (Which is a general date in Access in the format of 16/04/2003 7:15:00 PM)
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Hi Simon,
On my Windows XP system with J2SE SDK version 1.4.1_02 and Micro$oft Access 2002, I have the following table:
column name    column type
id             Number
name           Text
updated        Date/TimeUsing the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver (that is part of the J2SE distribution), the following code uses the JDBC "escape" syntax -- and it works.
import java.sql.*;
public class JdbcOdbc {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Connection dbConn = null;
    ResultSet rs = null;
    Statement stmt = null;
    String sql =
      "SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE updated = {ts '2003-04-13 07:53:23'}";
    try {
      Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
      dbConn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:db1");
      stmt = dbConn.createStatement();
      rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);
      if (rs.next()) {
        System.out.println("id      = " + rs.getInt(1));
        System.out.println("name    = " + rs.getString(2));
        System.out.println("updated = " + rs.getTimestamp(3));
    catch (SQLException sqlEx) {
      System.err.println("Database operation failed.");
      sqlEx.printStackTrace();
    catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfEx) {
      System.err.println("JDBC driver class not found");
      cnfEx.printStackTrace();
    finally {
      if (rs != null) {
        try {
          rs.close();
        catch (SQLException sqlEx) {
          System.err.println("ERROR: Failed to close result set");
          sqlEx.printStackTrace();
      if (stmt != null) {
        try {
          stmt.close();
        catch (SQLException sqlEx) {
          System.err.println("ERROR: Failed to close statement");
          sqlEx.printStackTrace();
      if (dbConn != null) {
        try {
          dbConn.close();
        catch (SQLException sqlEx) {
          System.err.println("ERROR: Failed to close DB connection");
          sqlEx.printStackTrace();
}More details about the JDBC escape syntax are available here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/statement.html#999472
Hope this helps you.
Good Luck,
Avi.