I need some help with a project I am working on. The aim of the
project is to create an information system which stores all its data
in files as well-formed XML. The project requires writing and reading
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Why is "jdbc:oracle:thin" called a thin driver?
Thanks in advance,
Harish.

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WinNT + Oracle7.3
To:
Win2000 + Oracle 9.2.0.1

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issues with this (outdated?) WebSphere release we switched to Tomcat
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this is the problem: I have a great number (10000s) of queries (INSERT)
to do on a single shot on a database which is composed of hundreds of

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the Username and Password are correct I will send the user to the next
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What is a reasonable insertions per second rate into a MySQL database on a
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Is there any way a browser based application can access both a SQL
server Database and Oracle database interchangeably without changing
any front end code ? Is there any provider available that is common to
both SQL Server and Oracle ?

I have a database with about 200 tables.  Most of my inserts are quite
simple: INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME ( ... ) VALUES ( ...)
I'm thinking about writing a program to auto-generate Prepared
Statements, 1 for each table in the database.

i want to connect with a java program to a db2 8.1 database.
both running on the same linux maschine.
that combination functioned on a windows 2000 pc before.
now i get the following error:

I really want to know how to connect to an accessXP database using
Java.  If you know the technique including driver class, etc. please
include as much as you can.  Thanks a lot!

In a method, I need to execute 2 queries. The arguments of the second one
are the results of the 1st one:
String query1 = "Select A from table1";  // A = SQL_CODE
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The Subject says its all.
I can't do
DriverManager dm = new DriverManager();
But I can do

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Now we upgraded to 1.4.1_03 and thought, that there should no probs.
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ConcurUpdatable!!) now holds only ONE row. (we checked it with

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exists, I'm kinda new to DB acces with JAVA, and I don't know how to connect
to to the DB.
I have already found out how to use the jdbcodbcbridge, but i find nowhere