JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is the Java API that manages connecting to a database, issuing queries and commands, and handling result sets obtained from the database.

The first thing you'll learn in this PostgreSQL and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) tutorial is that most developers simply call it Postgres. The two terms are both interchangeable and official. Use ...

To connect to the database, you must provide the JDBC DriverManager with the name of the database and credentials for a user with rights to access it. Declare this information as String properties at ...