fetchsize in resultset set to 0 by default

Question

I have to query a database and result set is very big. I am using MySQL as data base. To avoid the \"OutOfMemoryError\" after a lot of search I got two options:

Answer 1

In MySQL connector-j 5.1 implementation notes, they said there are 2 ways to handle this situation.

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The 1st is to make the statement retrieve data row by row, the 2nd can support batch retrieve.