Java JDBC Statement Create a Table Example with MySQL Database

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In this article, we will discuss how to create a table in a database via a JDBC Statement interface. To issue a create statement, calls the Statement.execute() method like this :

Statement statement = dbConnection.createStatement();
// execute create SQL statement
statement.execute(createTableSQL);

Technologies used

1. JDK - 1.8 or later
2. MySQL - 5.7.12
3. IDE - Eclipse Neon
4. JDBC API - 4.2

Steps to Process Create SQL statement with JDBC

1. Establishing a connection
2. Create a statement
3. Execute the query
4. Using try-with-resources Statements to Automatically Close JDBC Resources

From JDBC 4.0, we don't need to include 'Class.forName()' in our code, to load JDBC driver. When the method 'getConnection' is called, the 'DriverManager' will automatically load the suitable driver among the JDBC drivers that were loaded at initialization and those loaded explicitly using the same class loader as the current application.

Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(Urldatabase,Username,Password);

Any JDBC 4.0 drivers that are found in your classpath are automatically loaded. (However, you must manually load any drivers prior to JDBC 4.0 with the method Class.forName.)

JDBC Statement Create a Table Example

In this example, we will create a users table using SQL script:

create table users(
     id  int(3) primary key,
     name varchar(20),
     email varchar(20),
     country varchar(20),
     password varchar(20)
  );

Here is a complete Java JDBC program to create a users table in a database:

package com.javaguides.jdbc.statement.examples;

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

/**
 * Create Statement JDBC Example
 * @author Ramesh Fadatare
 *
 */
public class CreateStatementExample {

    private static final String createTableSQL = "create table Users1(\r\n" + "  id  int(3) primary key,\r\n" +
        "  name varchar(20),\r\n" + "  email varchar(20),\r\n" + "  country varchar(20),\r\n" +
        "  password varchar(20)\r\n" + "  );";

    public static void main(String[] argv) throws SQLException {
        CreateStatementExample createTableExample = new CreateStatementExample();
        createTableExample.createTable();
    }

    public void createTable() throws SQLException {

        System.out.println(createTableSQL);
        // Step 1: Establishing a Connection
        try (Connection connection = DriverManager
            .getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql_database?useSSL=false", "root", "root");

            // Step 2:Create a statement using connection object
            Statement statement = connection.createStatement();) {

            // Step 3: Execute the query or update query
            statement.execute(createTableSQL);
        } catch (SQLException e) {

            // print SQL exception information
            printSQLException(e);
        }

        // Step 4: try-with-resource statement will auto close the connection.
    }

    public static void printSQLException(SQLException ex) {
        for (Throwable e: ex) {
            if (e instanceof SQLException) {
                e.printStackTrace(System.err);
                System.err.println("SQLState: " + ((SQLException) e).getSQLState());
                System.err.println("Error Code: " + ((SQLException) e).getErrorCode());
                System.err.println("Message: " + e.getMessage());
                Throwable t = ex.getCause();
                while (t != null) {
                    System.out.println("Cause: " + t);
                    t = t.getCause();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Key points

1. From JDBC 4.0, we don't need to include 'Class.forName()' in our code, to load JDBC driver. JDBC 4.0 drivers that are found in your classpath are automatically loaded.
2. We have used try-with-resources Statements to Automatically Close JDBC Resources

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