Inserting CLOB Values with setString() Method

This section describes how to insert CLOB values with the PreparedStatement.setString() method.

Another way to insert a character string into a CLOB column is to create a PreparedStatement object and use the setString() method. See the sample program below:

/* SqlServerClobSetString.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
public class SqlServerClobSetString {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {
      com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource ds
        = new com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource();
      ds.setServerName("localhost");
//      ds.setPortNumber(60782);
      ds.setInstanceName("SQLEXPRESS");
      ds.setDatabaseName("AdventureWorks2019");
      ds.setUser("Herong");
      ds.setPassword("T0pSecret");
      con = ds.getConnection();

// Deleting the record for re-testing
      String subject = "Test of the setString() method";
      Statement sta = con.createStatement();
      sta.executeUpdate("DELETE FROM Article WHERE Subject = '"
        +subject+"'");

// Inserting CLOB value with a PreparedStatement
      PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(
        "INSERT INTO Article (Subject, Body) VALUES (?,?)");
      ps.setString(1, subject);
      ps.setString(2, "He is wonderful and strange and who knows"
        +" how old he is, he thought. Never have I had such"
        +" a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely..."
        +" He cannot know that it is only one man against him,"
        +" nor that it is an old man. But what a great fish"
        +" he is and what will he bring in the market"
        +" if the flesh is good.");
      int count = ps.executeUpdate();
      ps.close();

// Retrieving CLOB value with getString()
      ResultSet res = sta.executeQuery(
        "SELECT * FROM Article WHERE Subject = '"+subject+"'");
      res.next();
      System.out.println("The inserted record: ");
      System.out.println("   Subject = "+res.getString("Subject"));
      System.out.println("   Body = "+res.getString("Body"));
      res.close();
      sta.close();

      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Compilation and execution of this program is below. The output confirms that the character string value was correctly inserted into the CLOB column:

herong> java -cp .;mssql-jdbc-9.4.1.jre16.jar SqlServerClobSetString

The inserted record:
   Subject = Test of the setString() method
   Body = He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is,
he thought. Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted
so strangely... He cannot know that it is only one man against him,
nor that it is an old man. But what a great fish he is and what
will he bring in the market if the flesh is good.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction

 JDK (Java SE) Installation

 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

 Overview of CLOB (Character Large Object)

 Create Tables with CLOB Columns

 Inserting CLOB Values with SQL INSERT Statements

Inserting CLOB Values with setString() Method

 Inserting CLOB Values with setCharacterStream() Method

 Closing InputStream Too Early on setCharacterStream()

 Retrieving CLOB Values with getString() Method

 Retrieving CLOB Values with getCharacterStream() Method

 Retrieving CLOB Values with getClob() Method

 Inserting CLOB Values with setClob() Method

 SQL Server BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Using Connection Pool with JDBC

 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

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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