This article presents an overview of JDBC and JDBC drivers, followed by a hands-on introduction to using JDBC to connect a Java client to a lightweight relational database.

Get to know the Java persistence standard based on Hibernate and learn how to use JPA to store and manage Java objects in a relational or NoSQL database.

The Netbeans Java environment lets you create a connection to a database and retrieve records from the database to display in your Java forms. You can also add records to the tables using the ...