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Asked: 2026-05-15T18:59:45+00:00

I have created a table called myTable with a column called CURRENT_DATE and it’s

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I have created a table called “myTable” with a column called CURRENT_DATE and it’s data type is “DATE”. When I programatically update my table, I also want to place a timestamp or system date in the CURRENT_DATE field. A portion of what I am doing is shown below, but it is not working. I would think this would be easy, but… Can you help?

//System date is captured for placement in the CURRENT_DATE field in myTable
 java.util.Date currentDate = new java.util.Date();
...
stmt.executeQuery("INSERT INTO myTable (NAME, CURRENT_DATE) VALUES (' " + userName + " ', ' " + currentDate + " ')  ");
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  1. Editorial Team

    You really should be doing this as a prepared statement using parameters, it makes things a lot easier and cuts out a few very simple SQL injection threats.

    Connection con = ...;
PreparedStatement statement = con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO myTable (NAME, CURRENT_DATE) VALUES ( ?, ?)");
statement.setString(1, userName);
statement.setDate(2, currentDate );
statement.execute();

    There is plenty of info on how to use prepared statements properly. For example: http://www.jdbc-tutorial.com/jdbc-prepared-statements.htm

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