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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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<title>Chapter 7. Databases</title>
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<link rel="previous" href="baseapi.html" title="Part II. Programming with the Base API" />
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<body>
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<div class="navheader">
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<table width="100%" summary="Navigation header">
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<tr>
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<th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 7. Databases</th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baseapi.html">Prev</a> </td>
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<th width="60%" align="center">Part II. Programming with the Base API</th>
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<td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="coredbclose.html">Next</a></td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<hr />
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<div class="chapter" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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<div class="titlepage">
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<div>
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<div>
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<h2 class="title"><a id="DB"></a>Chapter 7. Databases</h2>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div></div>
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</div>
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<div class="toc">
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<p>
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<b>Table of Contents</b>
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</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>
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<span class="sect1">
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<a href="DB.html#DBOpen">Opening Databases</a>
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</span>
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</dt>
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<dt>
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<span class="sect1">
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<a href="coredbclose.html">Closing Databases</a>
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</span>
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</dt>
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<dt>
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<span class="sect1">
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<a href="DBConfig.html">Database Properties</a>
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</span>
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</dt>
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<dt>
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<span class="sect1">
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<a href="DBAdmin.html">Administrative Methods</a>
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</span>
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</dt>
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<dt>
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<span class="sect1">
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<a href="dbErrorReporting.html">Error Reporting Functions</a>
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</span>
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</dt>
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<dt>
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<span class="sect1">
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<a href="CoreEnvUsage.html">Managing Databases in Environments</a>
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</span>
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</dt>
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<dt>
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<span class="sect1">
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<a href="CoreJavaUsage.html">Database Example</a>
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</span>
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</dt>
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</dl>
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</div>
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<p>In Berkeley DB, a database is a collection of <span class="emphasis"><em>records</em></span>. Records,
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in turn, consist of key/data pairings.
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</p>
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<p>
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Conceptually, you can think of a
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<tt class="classname">Database</tt>
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as containing a two-column table where column 1 contains a key and column 2
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contains data. Both the key and the data are managed using
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<tt class="classname">DatabaseEntry</tt>
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<span>class instances</span>
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(see <a href="DBEntry.html">Database Records</a> for details on this
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<span>class</span>
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).
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So, fundamentally, using a DB
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<tt class="classname">Database</tt>
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involves putting, getting, and deleting database records, which in turns involves efficiently
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managing information
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<span>encapsulated by </span>
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<tt class="classname">DatabaseEntry</tt>
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<span>objects.</span>
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The next several chapters of this book are dedicated to those activities.
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</p>
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<div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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<div class="titlepage">
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<div>
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<div>
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<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="DBOpen"></a>Opening Databases</h2>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div></div>
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</div>
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<p>
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You open a database by instantiating a <tt class="classname">Database</tt>
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object.
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</p>
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<p>
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Note that by default, DB does not create databases if they do not already exist.
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To override this behavior, set the <a href="DBConfig.html" title="Database Properties">creation property</a> to true.
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</p>
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<p>
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The following code fragment illustrates a database open:
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</p>
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<a id="java_db1"></a>
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<pre class="programlisting">package db.GettingStarted;
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import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseException;
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import com.sleepycat.db.Database;
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import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseConfig;
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import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
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...
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Database myDatabase = null;
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...
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try {
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// Open the database. Create it if it does not already exist.
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DatabaseConfig dbConfig = new DatabaseConfig();
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dbConfig.setAllowCreate(true);
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myDatabase = new Database ("sampleDatabase.db",
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null,
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dbConfig);
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} catch (DatabaseException dbe) {
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// Exception handling goes here
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} catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
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// Exception handling goes here
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}</pre>
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<td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Part II. Programming with the Base API </td>
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<td width="20%" align="center">
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<a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a>
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<td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Closing Databases</td>
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