Usgent: using jsp date in sql select statement

Question

i have something like this:
String day;
String month;
String year;
select * from event where date = xxx
where xxx is supposed to be obtained from the strings (day, month, year) and changed into a format that can be compared to in the select statement.
what should xxx be?
thks as lot cos i ahe been figuring out for very long.

Answer 1

Use PreparedStatement and SimpleDateFormat:
String year = "2002";
String month = "9";
String day = "12";
String sDate = day + "/" + month + "/" + year;
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("M/d/yyyy");
Date dDate = df.parse(sDate);
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(user, pw);
PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM event WHERE date = ?");
ps.setDate(1, dDate);
ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
while (rs.next()) {
rs.close();
ps.close();
con.close();