JDBC returning empty result set

Question

I\'m using JDBC for very simple database connectivity.

I have created my connection/statement and executed a query. I check the query object of the statement in the

Answer 1

I then double checked the query (copied straight from debugger) on the database to make sure it returns data.

I've had engineers with this problem demonstrate this verification in front of me. It turns out they were logged in with one database account in the program and with a different database account in the interactive SQL shell. [This was Oracle 8.]