Set char in Prepared Statement

Question

Hi,
Can any one let me know how to set Character value in Prepared Statement. I have my table in which the column is of Char type. Now in my prepared statment, I am saying
PreparedStament pstmt = con.prepareStatement("select ticker from INSTRUMENT_TICKERXREF where ticker = ? ");
pstmt.setString(1,'F');
I even tried pstmt.setString(1,"F");
It gives me incompatible types. Can any please help me on this asap.
Regards,
..Raj

Answer 1

Hi,
I just tried using setString(), it does not seem to give any problems. But in any case, you could use setObject() too.
I tried both setString() and setObject for an example table structure as below:
create table testchar(col1 CHAR(3));
insert into testchar('one');
from java class:
PreparedStatement pstmt = conn.prepareStatement("select col1 from testchar where col1 = ? ");
//pstmt.setObject(1,"one");
pstmt.setString(1,"one");
Hope that helps.
Savitha.
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