JDBC 3.0 features

JDBC 3.0 adds some functionality to the core API. This section documents the features supported by Derby.

Note: These features are present only in a Java 2 version 1.4 or higher environment.

These features are:

New DatabaseMetaData methods. See java.sql.DatabaseMetaData interface: supported JDBC 3.0 methods.
Retrieval of parameter metadata. See java.sql.ParameterMetaData interface: supported JDBC 3.0 methods and java.sql.PreparedStatement interface: supported JDBC 3.0 methods.
Retrieval of auto-generated keys. See java.sql.Statement interface: supported JDBC 3.0 methods and java.sql.DatabaseMetaData interface: supported JDBC 3.0 methods.
Savepoints. See java.sql.Savepoint interface and java.sql.Connection interface: supported JDBC 3.0 methods.
HOLD Cursors. See java.sql.DatabaseMetaData interface: supported JDBC 3.0 methods.

Parent topic: JDBC reference

Related concepts

Core JDBC java.sql classes, interfaces, and methods

Related reference

java.sql.Driver interface

java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection method

java.sql.Connection interface

java.sql.DatabaseMetaData interface

java.sql.Statement interface

java.sql.CallableStatement interface

java.sql.SQLException class

java.sql.PreparedStatement interface

java.sql.ResultSet interface

java.sql.ResultSetMetaData interface

java.sql.SQLWarning class

java.sql.SQLXML interface

Mapping of java.sql.Types to SQL types

JDBC 2.0 features

java.sql.BatchUpdateException class

JDBC Package for Connected Device Configuration/Foundation Profile (JSR169)

JDBC 4.0-only features

JDBC escape syntax