Jaw drop: JDBC will let you update rows with the wrong data type (within reason)

Folks:

I just encountered a situation where JDBC allowed me to update rows in a 
table where the values did not match the column definition.

As long as you use the setObject method, you can set a numeric column to 
a string value and a character column with a numeric value.

The value contents have to match the column definition, but it doesn't 
seem to care what the data type being passed in.

For instance:

You create a table as such ...

create table testtab1 (
   decfield decimal(8,0),
   charfield char(10)
)

... and then run code like this ...

try (
   Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, props);
   PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement("insert into 
dxglib/testtab1 (decfield,charfield) values(?,?)");
) {

   stmt.setObject(1, 1);
   stmt.setObject(2, "xyz");
   stmt.executeUpdate();

   stmt.setObject(1, "2");
   stmt.setObject(2, 3);
   stmt.executeUpdate();

   stmt.setObject(1, "A");
   stmt.setObject(2, 3);
   stmt.executeUpdate();

} catch (Exception e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
}

.. the first two updates will work fine, but the 3rd will fail.

david
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