Getting MySql Working with JDBC in my Windows 7 Box
I have been studying for the OCP Exam. I passed the Programmer 1 exam and that one wasn't too difficult to prepare for. Preparing for the Programmer 2 exam has proven to be a much bigger challenge. It covers 12 areas with one of them being Building Applications with JDBC . In my work experience, I have been exposed to a small subset of JDBC. That's mostly because we don't use the raw implementations and instead use a combination of other persistence frameworks. I tried studying JDBC straight from the book to prepare for the exam and it's proven ineffective. Studying theory with no hands-on JDBC is difficult. There is simply too many unanswered questions. It also proves to be difficult because it is vastly different than anything I've done with ADO.net. So earlier this week I decided that in order to truly grasp JDBC, I was going to get some hands on practice. With this goal in mind, I figured the best option for a sandbox database system was MySQL.