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Insert Date in string format into a database having field type of Date

I am having a date in the following format as string.
String from_date = "2016-09-09";
I need to insert into into a database having date type field using PreparedStatement. I have done it in the following way.
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date fd = formatter.parse(from_date);
select1.setDate(1, fd);
But it is showing the error as
The method setDate(int.java.sql.Date) in the type PreparedStatement is not applicable to the arguments(int,java.util.Date)

You need to use a java.sql.Date when inserting in database. Try the following :
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date fd = formatter.parse(from_date);
java.sql.Date sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(fd.getTime());
select1.setDate(1, sqlDate);

Answered here: Type mismatch: cannot convert from java.util.Date to java.sql.Date
You are trying to use a method that accepts java.sql.Date instead of java.util.Date
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Using java.sql.Date
java.util.Date
Suppose you have a variable endDate of type java.util.Date, you make the conversion thus:
select1.setDate(1, new java.sql.Date(endDate.getTime());

Store date in SQLite

There is a lot of discussion here, but what I have tried isn't working. Till now in my tables I store the dates as a string, but I assume this isn't the right way... So I created a table:
CREATE TABLE "TRANSACTIONS" (
"date" DATETIME,
...
}
I want to store the date like 2016-11-04 10:50, so I use:
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
I use prepared Statements to insert records in DB and when I try to do this:
stm.setDate(1, timeStamp);
I get that String cannot be converted to Date. So I convert it to DATE
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
Date datee = formatter.parse(timeStamp);
and then I get java.util.Date cannot be converted to java.sql.Date so I tried this:
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
java.sql.Date sqlDate = java.sql.Date.valueOf(timeStamp);
which when I run it, I get java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

java.sql.Date represents a date, not a date and time.
You are getting this error because you are passing "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm" and throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
String d1 = "2016-10-11";
java.sql.Date d = null ;
d.valueOf(date1);
System.out.println(d.valueOf(date1));
`
This will run without any exception.
For your required format you should use java.sql.Timestamp
String date1 = "2016-10-11 10:45";
SimpleDateFormat sm = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
java.util.Date d2 = sm.parse(date1);
Timestamp time = new Timestamp(d2.getTime());
System.out.println(time);
Output - 2016-10-11 10:45:00.0

Convert String to date and compare

One of the fields which I extract from a database is a date in string format and I need to convert it into a date type to compare with another date.
How do I do this please? Everything I have tried so far gives me an error of java.util.Date cannot be cast to java.sql.Date and this is attempting the following example;
simpledateformat-gives-java-lang-classcastexception-java-util-date
An example of the date extracted in string format is "2012-10-15 09:00:29.157". I think the format to declare is yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS but not sure.
Thanks

You can create a java.util.Date from java.sql.Date as follows:
java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date(resultSet.getDate("Column").getTime());
Alternatively you can convert the java.sql.Date to either java.util.Calendar or Joda library's DateTime and perform comparisons.
If you are looking at parsing date, then java.text.SimpleDateFormat is your friend.
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
java.util.Date date = format.parse("2012-10-15 09:00:29.157");

It simply means you are assigning java.util.Date in java.sql.Date
From your example you have to do following :
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
java.util.Date date = (java.util.Date)formatter.parse(""2012-10-15 09:00:29.157"");

Convert to Date as Vikdor showed. then get the long timestamp = date.getTimestamp();
Now this long value is millisecons since 1970 utc. just compare by this value.

date type in java to fill a MySQL database

i have a field in my database (MySQL) with date type (with format yyyy-mm-dd) .I dont what data type to use to assing the date type of MySql to Java . Also i have to convert a string to this type .

Use a java.sql.Date to get the value of a date column:
java.sql.Date date = resultSet.getDate("theDateColumn");
To convert a string to a java.sql.Date, use a DateFormat to parse the string into a java.util.Date, and then transform the java.util.Date into a java.sql.Date:
String s = "01/28/2013";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
java.util.Date d = df.parse(s);
java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(d.getTime());

how to convert datetime to timestamp in java

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I am having one problem with date time in java. Actually I am receiving the startdate in format 2012-02-27T01:10:10 and I want to insert the received date to my database having datetime datatype.
Actually I tried to convert the startdate received to datetime by below code
String sDate = jsonObject.get("StartDate").toString();
String eDate = jsonObject.get("EndDate").toString();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date startD = sdf.format(sDate);
Date endD = sdf.format(eDate);
but with the above code only date gets added to my database like 2012-02-27 00:00:00
I want to add the time also to my database but when I change the SimpleDateFormat to SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); nothing works.
please suggest me some solution I can apply so my time also gets added to database. I am using Hibernate JPA as my persistence layer.

SimpleDateFormat's format() method doesn't return a Date type.
try this:
Date startDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss").parse(sDate);

Try this,
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss

String sDate = jsonObject.get("StartDate").toString();
String eDate = jsonObject.get("EndDate").toString();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date startD = sdf.format(sDate);
Timestamp startTime = new Timestamp(startD.getTime());
Date endD = sdf.format(eDate);
Timestamp endTime = new Timestamp(endD.getTime());

Of course only the date is parsed, since the pattern you provided to the SimpleDateFormat constructor only contains the date part! Add the time part to it and it will parse the time too just fine.

you can try like this....
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyyHHmmss");
Date date = format.parse("022310141505");