Monthly Archives for February 2009

Accessing MySQL Database(s) with JDBC

A new technical article entitled "Using the MySQL Connector/J JDBC Driver With the Java SE Platform", has been posted on java.sun.com at:

        http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/mysql_java/index.html

This article explains the essential steps involved in accessing/manipulating the data in a MySQL database from a Java application. MySQL Connector/J JDBC driver was used in the example code to show the database connectivity, data manipulation steps. Application developers who are new to Java programming language [but not to MySQL database] are the target audience of this article.

Stay tuned for the next article in this series "Using MySQL with PHP" ..

PHP 5.2.9 Released!

Quickly importing data from CSV file into PHP applications

By Alexander Skakunov
In this article you may learn how to quickly import data from CSV files into your application with help of PHP.

It also covers a tool that provides a Web based user interface for importing CSV data into a MySQL database table with support for mapping CSV columns into arbitrary MySQL database table columns.