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An update is the modification of a column value in the current row. Let's suppose that we want to raise the price of French Roast Decaf coffee to 10.99. Using the JDBC 1.0 API, the update would look something like this:stmt.executeUpdate("UPDATE COFFEES SET PRICE = 10.99" + "WHERE COF_NAME = FRENCH_ROAST_DECAF");The following code fragment shows another way to accomplish the update, this time using the JDBC 2.0 API:
uprs.last(); uprs.updateFloat("PRICE", 10.99);Update operations in the JDBC 2.0 API affect column values in the row where the cursor is positioned, so in the first line the
ResultSet
uprs
calls the methodlast
to move its cursor to the last row (the row where the columnCOF_NAME
has the valueFRENCH_ROAST_DECAF
). Once the cursor is on the last row, all of the update methods you call will operate on that row until you move the cursor to another row. The second line changes the value in thePRICE
column to 10.99 by calling the methodupdateFloat
. This method is used because the column value we want to update is afloat
in the Java programming language.The
ResultSet.
updateXXX
methods take two parameters: the column to update and the new value to put in that column. As with theResultSet.
getXXX
methods, the parameter designating the column may be either the column name or the column number. There is a differentupdateXXX
method for updating each datatype (updateString
,updateBigDecimal
,updateInt
, and so on) just as there are differentgetXXX
methods for retrieving different datatypes.At this point, the price in
uprs
for French Roast Decaf will be 10.99, but the price in the tableCOFFEES
in the database will still be 9.99. To make the update take effect in the database and not just the result set, we must call theResultSet
methodupdateRow
. Here is what the code should look like to update bothuprs
andCOFFEES
:uprs.last(); uprs.updateFloat("PRICE", 10.99f); uprs.updateRow();If you had moved the cursor to a different row before calling the method
updateRow
, the update would have been lost. If, on the other hand, you realized that the price should really have been 10.79 instead of 10.99, you could have cancelled the update to 10.99 by calling the methodcancelRowUpdates
. You have to invokecancelRowUpdates
before invoking the methodupdateRow
; onceupdateRow
is called, calling the methodcancelRowUpdates
does nothing. Note thatcancelRowUpdates
cancels all of the updates in a row, so if there are many invocations of theupdateXXX
methods on the same row, you cannot cancel just one of them. The following code fragment first cancels updating the price to 10.99 and then updates it to 10.79:uprs.last(); uprs.updateFloat("PRICE", 10.99); uprs.cancelRowUpdates(); uprs.updateFloat("PRICE", 10.79); uprs.updateRow();In this example, only one column value was updated, but you can call an appropriate
updateXXX
method for any or all of the column values in a single row. The concept to remember is that updates and related operations apply to the row where the cursor is positioned. Even if there are many calls toupdateXXX
methods, it takes only one call to the methodupdateRow
to update the database with all of the changes made in the current row.If you want to update the price for
COLOMBIAN_DECAF
as well, you have to move the cursor to the row containing that coffee. Because the row forCOLOMBIAN_DECAF
immediately precedes the row forFRENCH_ROAST_DECAF
, you can call the methodprevious
to position the cursor on the row forCOLOMBIAN_DECAF
. The following code fragment changes the price in that row to 9.79 in both the result set and the underlying table in the database:uprs.previous(); uprs.updateFloat("PRICE", 9.79); uprs.updateRow();All cursor movements refer to rows in a
ResultSet
object, not rows in the underlying database. If a query selects five rows from a database table, there will be five rows in the result set, with the first row being row 1, the second row being row 2, and so on. Row 1 can also be identified as the first, and, in a result set with five rows, row 5 is the last.The ordering of the rows in the result set has nothing at all to do with the order of the rows in the base table. In fact, the order of the rows in a database table is indeterminate. The DBMS keeps track of which rows were selected, and it makes updates t o the proper rows, but they may be located anywhere in the table. When a row is inserted, for example, there is no way to know where in the table it has been inserted.
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