There a number of pure Java SQL database systems develolpers can embed into applications. In this tip we introduce two open source projects, HSQLDB and Apache Derby.

SQL Server 2005's Type 4 JDBC driver provides database connectivity from a Java application. Though the driver class and connection URL are a bit different in this version, connectivity is a snap.

Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights.

It found that Python, Java, SQL and JavaScript appeared the most frequently in developer job ads, each appearing in more than 50,000 listings on Indeed. All four saw a significant jump in demand ...

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year.

Java developers -- so, most software developers -- need to know Java security issues. Make sure your app properly validates, and don't only rely on SecurityManager.

Need to use raw SQL with JPA and JPA? The Jakarta Persistence API's NativeQuery interface makes it possible to use Hibernate, SQL and JPA together in the same app.