Database-side JDBC procedures and nested connections

Database-side JDBC procedures and nested connections Most database-side JDBC Procedures need to share the same transaction space as the statements that called them. Nested connectionsgetting Database-side JDBC proceduresusing nested connections Nested connectionsgetting

The reasons for this are:

to avoid blocking and deadlocks
to ensure that any updates done from within the method are atomic with the outer transaction

In order to use the same transaction, the procedure must use the same connection as the parent SQL statement in which the method was executed. Connections re-used in this way are called nested connections.

Use the connection URL jdbc:default:connection to re-use the current Connection

The Database Connection URL jdbc:default:connection allows a Java method to get the Connection of the SQL statement that called it. This is the standard (SQL standard, Part 13 SQL Routines and Java) mechanism to obtain the nested connection object. The method would get a Connection:

Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:default:connection");

Loading a JDBC driver in a database-side routine is not required.