Read the whole series Part 1: Connect your Java applications to ... a sample application and sequence diagrams to show how a driver loads, how to retrieve a JDBC Connection, and how to create ...

followed by a hands-on introduction to using JDBC to connect a Java client to a lightweight relational database. Before JDBC, developers used Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), a language-agnostic ...

The first thing you'll learn in this PostgreSQL and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) tutorial is that most developers simply call it Postgres. The two terms are both interchangeable and official. Use ...

But don't try to connect to them with JDBC in Java. It is only for relational databases, so stick with the Apache Derby and MySQL instances. When you learn how to program against a database with JDBC ...