import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
public class CountRows_MySQL {
public static Connection getConnection() throws Exception {
String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/octopus";
String username = "root";
String password = "root";
Class.forName(driver); // load MySQL driver
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
return conn;
}
public static int countRows(Connection conn, String tableName) throws SQLException {
// select the number of rows in the table
Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
int rowCount = -1;
try {
stmt = conn.createStatement();
rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " + tableName);
// get the number of rows from the result set
rs.next();
rowCount = rs.getInt(1);
} finally {
rs.close();
stmt.close();
}
return rowCount;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Connection conn = null;
try {
conn = getConnection();
String tableName = "myTable";
System.out.println("tableName=" + tableName);
System.out.println("conn=" + conn);
System.out.println("rowCount=" + countRows(conn, tableName));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
} finally {
// release database resources
try {
conn.close();
} catch (SQLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}