Research Paper on:
Relational Databases and JDBC Driver Types

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in databases. These days, dBase III is considered outdated. What has not been outdated, however, is that Java applications have trouble talking to databases.  Another problem is the Internet. The World Wide Web today is a massive collection of file types - and most web managers dont use data-management technology because they  build site for visual appeal rather than information retrieval (North, 2002). As a result, a browser user doesnt typically "see" optimized information retrieval capabilities (North, 2002).  Technologies such as XML and object-relational databases have been helpful toward information integration and retrieval (North, 2002). Meanwhile, Java has become the most portable language in  recent years for creating data-access software (North, 2002). But using Java to successfully access databases has been problematic, as there was no way in which Java could successfully talk to  the databases (Vanhelsuwe, 2002). Before launching into the Java-relational database link, it might first be helpful to discuss what, exactly, a  relational database is, and why such a link to Java is desirable. In its simplest terminology, a relational database consists of a set of interconnected tables (Spruit, 2002). Each table  within the database stores one sort of data that is relevant to the application (Spruit, 2002). As an example, an address book might have tables for people, addresses, phone numbers  and so on (Spruit, 2002). The data would be stored in the database as a series of strings, integers and other types (Spruit, 2002). The definition of the database tables  describes how the relevant information on each piece of data is stored in a tables columns - for example a "person" table could have columns with certain strings to store