Section 15.9. Resources

15.9. Resources

If you are going to use an Oracle database, we highly recommend Java Oracle Database Development by David Gallardo (ISBN 0130462187, Prentice Hall PTR), part of their Oracle Series. It includes several introductory chapters on database design, SQL, and even PL/SQL. It then has a much more thorough coverage of JDBC topics, with examples specific to Oracle, than we can cover in our limited space.

A JDBC implementation for MySQL is available at

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-jdbc.html.

JDBC tutorial information, as well as lots of other JDBC information, is available from Sun at http://www.java.sun.com/products/jdbc/.

If you are working with a database other than mySQL or Oracle, you might want to check out http://servlet.java.sun.com/products/jdbc/drivers for a list of approximately two hundred JDBC implementations for various databases.