How to print data to a JTextArea from a MS SQL table

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rizillion 0 Newbie Poster

15 Years Ago

I have created a database using MS SQL named "Company" and there is a table named "Employee".

I need to print the records from the "Employee" table to a JTextArea keeping tabs for each columns in the JTextArea. How can i do it? Please help.

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Latest Post 15 Years Ago Latest Post by peter_budo

peter_budo 2,532 Code tags enforcer

15 Years Ago

Why don't you use JTable?

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rizillion 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 1 · 2009-07-20T21:42:13+00:00

Why don't you use JTable?

OK, even if I use JTable how will I be able to get the data from MS SQL database to the table?

Using JTable is my second option to pursue with this exersice, but it would be great if you help me with my primary option. That is using JtextArea,

peter_budo 2,532 Code tags enforcer Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 2 · 2009-07-20T21:54:12+00:00

You need to connect to database and run query to get what ever data you need(general tutorial how to access database can be found here). Then format received data in such way so you can insert them in JTable (as per link in my first reply)