Question

I have a 2 ResultSet‘s generated from the same Statement object.

Code Sample follows:

Connection con            = null;
Statement  stmt           = null;
ResultSet rs = null;

con = DBAccess.getConnection();
stmt = con.createStatement();

rs = stmt.executeQuery(Query1);
// operate on the resultset

rs = stmt.executeQuery(Query2);   // Is it legal and do not have side-effects?
// operate on the resultset

// close everythings (Resultset, Statement, Connection)

I checked it to work well. My doubt is will it have any side effects ?

Answer 1

From the javadoc :

By default, only one ResultSet object per Statement object can be open
at the same time. Therefore, if the reading of one ResultSet object is
interleaved with the reading of another, each must have been generated
by different Statement objects. All execution methods in the Statement
interface implicitly close a statment’s current ResultSet object if an
open one exists.

So yes, you can do it safely. You just can’t use your first resultset after you have executed the second query.