Prepared Statement without place holders

Question

Hi,
Is it possible that i have a PreparedStatement and it does not bind with anything?. If yes, how do I do it?. I tried doing it, but it gives invalid bindings error..
Thanks and Regards,
Sapan.

Answer 1

Hi Sapan,
Rather than take a wild guess -- based on the [lack of] information you have provided -- I will offer a code sample that you can compare your code to, in the hope that it may help you. Otherwise, try posting some more details, like:
1. complete error message and stack trace you are getting
2. the section of your code that is causing the problem
3. java version you are using
4. platform you are using
5. database and JDBC driver you are using
The following code was tested on SUN [sparc] Solaris 7 with Oracle 8i (8.1.7.4) database, Oracle JDBC (thin) driver and J2SE SDK version 1.3.1_02
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
public class JdbcTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Connection dbConn = null;
    ResultSet rs = null;
    PreparedStatement stmt = null;
    String url = "???";
    String sql = "select * from DUAL";
    try {
      Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
      dbConn = DriverManager.getConnection(url);
      stmt = dbConn.prepareStatement(sql);
      rs = stmt.executeQuery();
      if (rs.next()) {
        System.out.println(rs.getString(1));
      else {
        System.out.println("Not found");
    catch (Exception x) {
      System.err.println("Exception caught: " + x);
      x.printStackTrace();
    finally {
      if (rs != null) {
        try {
          rs.close();
        catch (Exception x) {
          System.err.println("Failed to close result set.");
          x.printStackTrace();
      if (stmt != null) {
        try {
          stmt.close();
        catch (Exception x) {
          System.err.println("Failed to close statement.");
          x.printStackTrace();
      if (dbConn != null) {
        try {
          dbConn.close();
        catch (Exception x) {
          System.err.println("Failed to close DB connection.");
          x.printStackTrace();
}Hope this helps you.
Good Luck,
Avi.