Getting Driver and Server Information

This section describes how to get JDBC driver and database information through the DatabaseMetaData object.

Once you have created a database connection object, you can obtain some version information about the JDBC driver and database server through the DatabaseMetaData object as shown in the following program:

/* MySqlDatabaseInfo.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;
public class MySqlDatabaseInfo {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {

// Setting up the DataSource object - newer version
      com.mysql.cj.jdbc.MysqlDataSource ds
        = new com.mysql.cj.jdbc.MysqlDataSource();

// Setting up the DataSource object - older version
      // com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource ds
      //   = new com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource();

      ds.setServerName("localhost");
      ds.setPortNumber(3306);
      ds.setDatabaseName("HerongDB");
      ds.setUser("Herong");
      ds.setPassword("TopSecret");

// Getting a connection object
      con = ds.getConnection();

// Getting driver and database info
      DatabaseMetaData meta = con.getMetaData();
      System.out.println("Server name: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductName());
      System.out.println("Server version: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductVersion());
      System.out.println("Driver name: "
        + meta.getDriverName());
      System.out.println("Driver version: "
        + meta.getDriverVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC major version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMajorVersion());
      System.out.println("JDBC minor version: "
        + meta.getJDBCMinorVersion());

// Closing the connection
      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println("Exception: "+e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}

The output confirms that JDBC driver mysql-connector-java-8.0.27.jar is a JDBC 4.2 driver:

herong> javac -cp .:mysql-connector-java.jar MySqlDatabaseInfo.java

herong> java -cp .:mysql-connector-java.jar MySqlDatabaseInfo
Server name: MySQL
Server version: 8.0.17
Driver name: MySQL Connector/J
Driver version: mysql-connector-java-8.0.27 (Revision: ...)
JDBC major version: 4
JDBC minor version: 2

As a reference, here is the output of the same program using JDK 8 and JDBC driver 5.1.36:

herong> javac -cp .:mysql-connector-java-5.1.36-bin.jar \
   MySqlDatabaseInfo.java

herong> java -cp .:mysql-connector-java-5.1.36-bin.jar MySqlDatabaseInfo
Server name: MySQL
Server version: 5.5.15
Driver name: MySQL Connector Java
Driver version: mysql-connector-java-5.1.36 ( Revision: ... )
JDBC major version: 4
JDBC minor version: 0

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction

 JDK (Java SE) Installation

 Installing and Running Java DB - Derby

 Derby (Java DB) JDBC Driver

 Derby (Java DB) JDBC DataSource Objects

 Java DB (Derby) - DML Statements

 Java DB (Derby) - ResultSet Objects of Queries

 Java DB (Derby) - PreparedStatement

 MySQL Installation on Windows

MySQL JDBC Driver (MySQL Connector/J)

 MySQL Connector/J - Download and Installation

 Loading JDBC Driver for MySQL Server

 JDBC Driver Connection URL

 Creating Connections with DataSource Class

Getting Driver and Server Information

 Creating Tables with AUTO_INCREMENT Columns

 "INSERT INTO" Statements

 MySQL - PreparedStatement

 MySQL - Reference Implementation of JdbcRowSet

 MySQL - JBDC CallableStatement

 MySQL CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 MySQL BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Oracle Express Edition Installation on Windows

 Oracle JDBC Drivers

 Oracle - Reference Implementation of JdbcRowSet

 Oracle - PreparedStatement

 Oracle - JBDC CallableStatement

 Oracle CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 Oracle BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition

 Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - Query Statements and Result Sets

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DatabaseMetaData Object

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DDL Statements

 Microsoft JDBC Driver - DML Statements

 SQL Server - PreparedStatement

 SQL Server CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 SQL Server BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - Flat Text Files

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - MS Access

 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver - MS SQL Server

 Summary of JDBC Drivers and Database Servers

 Using Connection Pool with JDBC

 Archived Tutorials

 References

 Full Version in PDF/EPUB