What is the difference between ExecuteUpdate and
ExecuteQuery?
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Answer / anji
executeUpdate() - is used to update or modify the table, it
will returns howmany rows added/updated in the table.
executeQuery() - is used to retrieve the data from the
table. only for "select" query, this will return a
Resultset metadata
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Answer / vishnuvardhan
ExecuteUpdate method will return integer value.
ExecuteQuery method will return ResultSet value.
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Answer / balu
executeUpdate() --is used for executing non-select
statements
executeQuery() - is used for executing select statements
The above two are valid in SQLServer
Note: but i think in case of Oracle executequery()may also
accept non-select statements
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Answer / fiza
when we seach any record from database we call the execute
query and when we write in database we call the update
method
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