Question

Hi i’m trying to insert a Date via Servlet in SQL database. If the post submitted field birthday is emtpy then it should insert 0000-00-00

but this is a bit complicated.

i did it this way and it works:

if (birthdate == null) {
            ps_employee.setInt(4, 0); //ps_employee is my PreparedStatement
        } else {
            ps_employee.setDate(4, birthdate);
        }

birthday is null if the post field has no value. otherwise birthday contains a valid java.sql.date object.

The code above works but it shows a warning in sql : “data for birthday truncated”….

Is there a better way to insert a 0000-00-00 Date ???

thanks for your help..

Answer 1

  String query="INSERT INTO tablename values(?) "
  Connection connection = get the dbconn;
  PreparedStatement preparedStatement= connection.prepareStatement(query);      
  preparedStatement.setNull(0, java.sql.Types.DATE)