I haven’t written Java code to access relational database for a while. Over the years there have been lots of progresses, especially with various Object Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks. With these frameworks, accessing relational databases becomes pretty easy. In some cases, you don’t have to know SQL at all. Of course understanding SQL is always an advantage.
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