Get an overview of JDBC's architecture, then learn how to connect to a database and handle SQL queries and responses with PreparedStatements, transactions, connection pooling, and more.

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The database vendor has also promised that its Corba-based Network Computing Architecture, which is being incorporated into Oracle's entire product family, will support Java.