Re: To much data for a ResultSet

Ben,

Cursors are supported. My guess as to your problem (since you didn't
send a full code example of what you are doing) is that you need to
issue multiple 'fetch' statements. Each fetch statement will return its
own result set. So when you have used up the results from one fetch
statement, you need to execute another. I have provided an example
below which I have hacked from some of my own code.

thanks,
--Barry

PreparedStatement l_stmt = null;
PreparedStatement l_stmtFetch = null;
PreparedStatement l_stmtClose = null;
ResultSet l_rset = null;
try { //exception
try { //finally
//open the cursor
l_stmt = m_dbcon.prepareStatement("DECLARE FOO CURSOR FOR
SELECT BAR FROM FOOBAR");
l_stmt.execute();

l_stmtFetch = m_dbcon.prepareStatement("FETCH FORWARD 10 FROM
FOO");
while (true) {
//perform a fetch from the cursor (possibly multiple fetches
will be done)
l_rset = l_stmtFetch.executeQuery();
l_rows = 0;
while (l_rset.next()) {
String l_bar = l_rset.getString(1);
//do something useful with the data
l_rows++;
}

l_rset.close();
l_rset = null;

if (l_rows == 0) {
//no more rows, so we are done
break;
}
}

//don't forget to close the cursor
l_stmtClose = m_dbcon.prepareStatement("CLOSE FOO");
l_stmtClose.execute();
} finally {
if (l_rset != null) {
l_rset.close();
}
if (l_stmt != null) {
l_stmt.close();
}
if (l_stmtFetch != null) {
l_stmtFetch.close();
}
if (l_stmtClose != null) {
l_stmtClose.close();
}
}
} catch (SQLException l_se) {
//do something useful here
}

ben(dot)suffolk(at)orange(dot)co(dot)uk wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am retrieveing a lot of data from a table and it results in a
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError and so I figured I need to make sure I don;t get all
> the data from the database back in one go.
>
> I have tried setting a cursorName and this does indeed only return the first
> part of the data into the ResultSet. However I can not seem to find a way to
> retrieve the remaining part of the data. I have tried using the following
> command :-
>
> if(select.getMoreResults())
> rs = select.getResultSet();
>
> However there are never are never any more ResultsSets avaliable.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or are cursors not implemented in this version of the
> JDBC drivers (jdbc7.1-1.2.jar)?
>
> An obvious bodge for me (as the data in the database is not changing on a
> regular basis) is to use LIMIT in the SELECT command, however I would rather do
> it a nicer way than that!
>
> Regards
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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