Ok, here's another.. A date issue..

Question

I have a string date (to be) passed from a gui. The date would come in as:
eDate = "05/01/2005"
I need to format this date for an Access database to have this same value. This converts to
12/30/1899 12:00:49 AM
in the database.
Suggestions?

Answer 1

As in, the database field has the "converted" value.. I've played with DateFormat and some other suggestions, but nothing seems to work right. I need a way to convert this to a "database friendly" format.
This is the code (look familiar?)
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import java.sql.*;
import java.text.*;
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    public class AddID {
       public static void AddIDs() {
           // test block
             String thsID = null;
         String empID = "99887";
         String efnme = "Test";
         String elnme = "Case7";
         String effDate = "05/05/2005";    // --------this is the date field.  this is the entry format.
         String ISO = "GP3SGS";
         String acfID = "GP3FFE, GP4SDS";
         String otisID = "DSOFRG, GP5RRR";
         try {
            Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
            String database = "jdbc:odbc:driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=Q:\\Information Security\\@Daily Work\\SearchID_app\\oldLogins.mdb";
            Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(database, "", "");
            Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
            String inGenQuery = ("INSERT INTO oldLogins(EmplID, LastName, FirstName, EffDate, SecAnalyst) " +
                               "Values('" + empID     +
                                              "','" + elnme +
                                              "','" + efnme +
                                              "'," + effDate +
                                              ",'" + ISO + "')");
            int returned = stmt.executeUpdate(inGenQuery);
            // System.out.println(returned);
              String getIDQuery = ("Select ID from oldLogins " +
                                         "WHERE EmplID = '" + empID + "'");
              ResultSet id_rs = stmt.executeQuery(getIDQuery);
              while(id_rs.next()){
                   thsID = id_rs.getString("ID");
              System.out.println(thsID);
             catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
       public static void main(String[] args){
            System.out.println("--------------Invoking class-------------");
            AddIDs();
            System.out.println("---------------Ending class--------------");
   }