Question

I am newbie to javascript. I am just wondering whether is it possible to fetch database details using only javascript. I know javascript is client side component. Normally using method we fetch database details.

public static void main(String args[]) throws SQLException {
        //URL of Oracle database server
        String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1632:XE";

        //properties for creating connection to Oracle database
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.setProperty("user", "scott");
        props.setProperty("password", "tiger");

        //creating connection to Oracle database using JDBC
        Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url,props);

        String sql ="select sysdate as current_day from dual";

        //creating PreparedStatement object to execute query
        PreparedStatement preStatement = conn.prepareStatement(sql);

        ResultSet result = preStatement.executeQuery();

        while(result.next()){
            System.out.println("Current Date from Oracle : " +         result.getString("current_day"));
        }
        System.out.println("done");

    }
}

Is it possible to fetch same thing using only javascript which works on any machine like windows,linux and any browsers like mozilla, IE, Safari etc.? Any pointer, suggestion really helpful me to understand power of javascript.

Answer 1

No, it is not possible using client-side javascript.

There are server side javascript options like node.js.
You can take a look at those.