Java creating tables in MySQL Database

Question

First of all thanks to those that helped me previously.

The issue that I'm having at the moment, is with either this line of code

    statement.executeUpdate(myTableName);

or with these lines of code

    String myTableName = "CREATE TABLE AgentDetail (" 
        + "idNo INT(64) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,"  
        + "initials VARCHAR(2)," 
        + "agentDate DATE,"  
        + "agentCount INT(64))";  

When it code reaches these points, it generates an error which is caught by the SQLException block.

It is either very simple or it is very complicated

Could anybody point out where this newbie to Java MySQL programming has made the error and hopefully not errors, thanks in advance

Here is the Rest of the code in full

    public class DbStuff {
    private String jdbcDriver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
    private String dbAddress = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/";
    private String userPass = "?user=root&password=";
    private String dbName = "TIGER19";
    private String userName = "root";
    private String password = "";

    private PreparedStatement preStatement;
    private Statement statement;
    private ResultSet result;
    private Connection con;

    public DbStuff() {
        try {
            Class.forName(jdbcDriver);
            con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbAddress + dbName, userName, password);
        } 
        catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } 
        catch (SQLException e) {
            createDatabase();
            createTableCub1();
        }
    }

    private void createDatabase() {
        try {
            Class.forName(jdbcDriver);
            con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbAddress + userPass);
            Statement s = con.createStatement();
            int myResult = s.executeUpdate("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS " + dbName);
        } 
        catch (ClassNotFoundException | SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private void createTableCub1() {
        String myTableName = "CREATE TABLE AgentDetail (" 
            + "idNo INT(64) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,"  
            + "initials VARCHAR(2)," 
            + "agentDate DATE,"  
            + "agentCount INT(64))";  
        try {
            Class.forName(jdbcDriver);
            con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbAddress + dbName, userName, password);
            statement = con.createStatement();
            //The next line has the issue
            statement.executeUpdate(myTableName);
            System.out.println("Table Created");
        }
        catch (SQLException e ) {
            System.out.println("An error has occurred on Table Creation");
        }
        catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println("An Mysql drivers were not found");
        }
    }
    }

Answer 1

First of all thank you for the help and advice. It was very helpful indeed. As a result of this I have managed to learn three thing,

• How to write a proper instruction in how to create a table.
• How to create a MySQL table in Java.
• Something that Smit said, which was to read the e.printStackTrace() information.

Here is the code that I have come up with.

private void createTableCub1() {
    String myTableName = "CREATE TABLE AgentDetail (" 
            + "idNo INT(64) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,"  
            + "initials VARCHAR(2)," 
            + "agentDate DATE,"  
            + "agentCount INT(64), "
            + "PRIMARY KEY(idNo))";  
    try {
        Class.forName(jdbcDriver);
        con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbAddress + dbName, userName, password);
        statement = con.createStatement();
        //This line has the issue
        statement.executeUpdate(myTableName);
        System.out.println("Table Created");
    }
    catch (SQLException e ) {
        System.out.println("An error has occured on Table Creation");
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        System.out.println("An Mysql drivers were not found");
    }
}

Of course I would welcome and appreciate any and all feedback

Answer 2

Your table creation SQL statement is not correct. To set a column auto increment in mysql it has to be primary key.

CREATE TABLE AgentDetail ( 
        idNo INT(64) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
        initials VARCHAR(2),
        agentDate DATE,  
        agentCount INT(64),PRIMARY KEY (`idNo`));