Question

In mysql database, I have a field called "date" of date type.
When I am trying to retrieve the value in "date" field using getString() of java
I am getting an exception as thus:

java.sql.SQLException: Value '0000-00-00' can not be represented as java.sql.Date

is it that we can’t use getString() to fetch a date type value? or is the name “date” conflicting with the date field type? or is something else wrong?

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Field   Type    Null    Default

date    date    YES     NULL

I am just curious about this, thats all. As a solution, I tried converting the "date" using DATE_FORMAT(date, '%d %m %Y') as dt and it worked.

Answer 1

In java, when you try to get date from a ResultSet, you need to use getDate instead of getString.

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getString was able to work on this DATE_FORMAT(date, '%d %m %Y') because its now in the string format.