Using setDate in PreparedStatement

Question

In order to make our code more standard, we were asked to change all the places where we hardcoded our SQL variables to prepared statements and bind the variables instead. <

Answer 1

The docs explicitly says that java.sql.Date will throw:

• IllegalArgumentException - if the date given is not in the JDBC date escape format (yyyy-[m]m-[d]d)

Also you shouldn't need to convert a date to a String then to a sql.date, this seems superfluous (and bug-prone!). Instead you could:

java.sql.Date sqlDate := new java.sql.Date(now.getTime());
prs.setDate(2, sqlDate);
prs.setDate(3, sqlDate);