why do I get a syntax error for prepared statement? [duplicate]

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I have written a prepared statement but its giving a syntax error at ?. I am not able to understand whats wrong.It should pass a movie name and get the result as directors of that movie

stmt=getConnection().createStatement();
        String sql="SELECT directors FROM moviedata WHERE moviedata.title = ?";
        PreparedStatement preparedStatement=conn.prepareStatement(sql);
        preparedStatement.setString(1,movieName);
        rs=preparedStatement.executeQuery(sql);

Answer 1

The problem is here:

rs=preparedStatement.executeQuery(sql);

You shouldn't pass the SQL String to executeQuery(), since the prepared statement already contains the SQL String with the ? placeholder replaced by the value of movieName.

Use:

rs=preparedStatement.executeQuery();

Answer 2

The problem is not in using Preparedstatement >Because the prepared statement object holds the sql query. The why again unnecessarily passing Sql string to executequery() method.PreparedStatement preparedstatement=conn.PrepareStatement(sql). This holds the sql query and when executequery() method is called The query is evaluated.