hi everyone.

my issue is that when creating a prepared statement if i create a delete statement with a variable the code doesnt excute but instead if i provide it with a string it works fine. whats the problem.

this code doesnt seem to work

public void delCustomer(String id) throws Exception {
	 try {
			// This will load the MySQL driver, each DB has its own driver
			Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
			// Setup the connection with the DB
			connect = DriverManager
					.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/mydatabase?"
							+ "user=sqldata&password=sqldatapw");
			// Statements allow to issue SQL queries to the database
			statement = connect.createStatement();

//			 PreparedStatements can use variables and are more efficient
			
			
			preparedStatement = connect
			.prepareStatement("delete from MYDATABASE.CUSTOMER where ID_NUMBER= ? ");
			
			
			preparedStatement.setString(1, id);			

			preparedStatement.executeUpdate(); 
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw e;
		} finally {
			close();
		}	
			
 }

this work fine and i have debuged to see that in the last code id == 00002

public void delCustomer(String id) throws Exception {
	 try {
			// This will load the MySQL driver, each DB has its own driver
			Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
			// Setup the connection with the DB
			connect = DriverManager
					.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/mydatabase?"
							+ "user=sqldata&password=sqldatapw");
			// Statements allow to issue SQL queries to the database
			statement = connect.createStatement();

//			 PreparedStatements can use variables and are more efficient
			
			
			preparedStatement = connect
			.prepareStatement("delete from MYDATABASE.CUSTOMER where ID_NUMBER= ? ");
			
			
			preparedStatement.setString(1, "00002");			

			preparedStatement.executeUpdate(); 
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw e;
		} finally {
			close();
		}	
			
 }

hmm I dont se why this shouldn't work, try changing the "=" to "is" in the query and see if it helps.

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