How do I create a table in database?

Date: 2010-09-16. Category: Java JDBC examples. Hits: 7K time(s).

In this example you can see how to create a table in database. We create a table called BOOKS with two fields ID and TITLE.

package org.kodejava.example.sql;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;

public class CreateTableExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		Connection connection = null;
		try
		{
			Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
			
			String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:xe";
			String username = "kodejava";
			String password = "welcome";
			
			String sql = "CREATE TABLE books (id NUMBER(11), title VARCHAR2(64))";		
			connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
			Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
			statement.execute(sql);
		} catch (SQLException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			if (connection != null && !connection.isClosed()) {
				connection.close();
			}
		}
	}
}

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