I am writing code to get data out of an existing customer database and put this data into a new database as part of a product update. I am told I can start one database server, and use it to get connections to both databases. My problem is that the database are in essence the same - they are just in different directories. My directory structure looks like this:
c:\myapplication\my.db
c:\old_myapplication\my.db
To access the first database I do the following:
// initialize the database driver
String dbDriver = properties.getProperty("database_driver","com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybConnectionPoolDataSource");
String URL = "jdbc:sybase:Tds:127.0.0.1:2638";
try {
Class.forName(dbDriver);
} catch(Exception e) {}
originalDBConnection = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, "username","password");
.....
This works fine and I connect to the first database. My problem is that I can't figure out how to connect to
the second database! I don't see where the path to the database is ever specified, and since both
databases use the same driver it seems I need to use the same URL.