JDBC Statement Example – Batch Update

Here’s an example to show you how to insert few records in batch process, via JDBC Statement.

dbConnection.setAutoCommit(false);
 
statement = dbConnection.createStatement();
statement.addBatch(insertTableSQL1);
statement.addBatch(insertTableSQL2);
statement.addBatch(insertTableSQL3);
 
statement.executeBatch();
 
dbConnection.commit();

Note
Batch Update is not limit to Insert statement, it’s apply for Update and Delete statement as well.

See full JDBC batch update example …

package com.mkyong.jdbc;
 
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 
public class JDBCBatchUpdateExample {
 
	private static final String DB_DRIVER = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
	private static final String DB_CONNECTION = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:MKYONG";
	private static final String DB_USER = "user";
	private static final String DB_PASSWORD = "password";
	private static final DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
			"yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
 
	public static void main(String[] argv) {
 
		try {
 
			batchInsertRecordsIntoTable();
 
		} catch (SQLException e) {
 
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
		}
 
	}
 
	private static void batchInsertRecordsIntoTable() throws SQLException {
 
		Connection dbConnection = null;
		Statement statement = null;
 
		String insertTableSQL1 = "INSERT INTO DBUSER"
				+ "(USER_ID, USERNAME, CREATED_BY, CREATED_DATE) " + "VALUES"
				+ "(101,'mkyong','system', " + "to_date('"
				+ getCurrentTimeStamp() + "', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss'))";
 
		String insertTableSQL2 = "INSERT INTO DBUSER"
				+ "(USER_ID, USERNAME, CREATED_BY, CREATED_DATE) " + "VALUES"
				+ "(102,'mkyong','system', " + "to_date('"
				+ getCurrentTimeStamp() + "', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss'))";
 
		String insertTableSQL3 = "INSERT INTO DBUSER"
				+ "(USER_ID, USERNAME, CREATED_BY, CREATED_DATE) " + "VALUES"
				+ "(103,'mkyong','system', " + "to_date('"
				+ getCurrentTimeStamp() + "', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss'))";
 
		try {
			dbConnection = getDBConnection();
			statement = dbConnection.createStatement();
 
			dbConnection.setAutoCommit(false);
 
			statement.addBatch(insertTableSQL1);
			statement.addBatch(insertTableSQL2);
			statement.addBatch(insertTableSQL3);
 
			statement.executeBatch();
 
			dbConnection.commit();
 
			System.out.println("Records are inserted into DBUSER table!");
 
		} catch (SQLException e) {
 
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
		} finally {
 
			if (statement != null) {
				statement.close();
			}
 
			if (dbConnection != null) {
				dbConnection.close();
			}
 
		}
 
	}
 
	private static Connection getDBConnection() {
 
		Connection dbConnection = null;
 
		try {
 
			Class.forName(DB_DRIVER);
 
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
 
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
		}
 
		try {
 
			dbConnection = DriverManager.getConnection(
				DB_CONNECTION, DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD);
			return dbConnection;
 
		} catch (SQLException e) {
 
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
		}
 
		return dbConnection;
 
	}
 
	private static String getCurrentTimeStamp() {
 
		java.util.Date today = new java.util.Date();
		return dateFormat.format(today.getTime());
 
	}
 
}

Result

3 records are inserted into database via batch update process.

Why need to use Batch Update?

The above batch update is same with normal executeUpdate() method like this :

statement.executeUpdate(insertTableSQL1);
statement.executeUpdate(insertTableSQL2);
statement.executeUpdate(insertTableSQL3);

But batch update has performance benefit if you want to insert many records, because executeBatch() reduces the number of JDBC calls to database.