Lateral-thinking

During many interviews I have taken , I have observed even seasoned programmers find it difficult to explain the use of class.forname() method while making a JDBC connection object. In this post, I am just trying to explain this, Here is a simple JDBC code, import java.sql.*; public class JdbcConCode { public static void main(String args[]) { Connection con = null; String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/nilesh"; String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"; String user = "root"; String pass = "nilesh"; try { Class.forName(driver); con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pass); System.out.println("Connection is created...."); //TODO //rest of the code goes here } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(e); } } } Let's go through the code above, the url indicates the location of the database schema, here the database is nilesh . Then there is Driver which is the fully qualified JDBC driver class name. ...

This is my first stint with blogging and I thought why not just start with sharing some useful information/tricks  that can save you some time. To begin with , here are couple of tips that could save you some time. Actually, I had once this problem where I have to take backup and move my work data to a new laptop and as we normally do , I also put my data on some external drive and copied it to the new box. During all this exercise I realized that by this I can only back up the data, what about the work I am doing..my configurations and installations...? What the heck...I need to spend lot of time to redo all that...crap. I was using Putty, SecureCRT and SecureFX to log on to client side boxes and to work upon. And all three had at least 30 saved sessions having IP/user/pwd information, reconfiguring those sessions would be a daunting tasks. I did some research "well by that I meant googling also..:)" and here is how a little information can help you.. I...