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zairahCS
zairahCS

Reputation: 325

How to check if username already exist in the sql database before one can create new account using java

How can i put into code when i want to prompt a message whenever a user creates a new account or updates his/her username and that username already exist on the sql database. here's a part of my code when i click save button on my CreateNewUserAccount class:

   String sql = "insert into tblUserInfo (UserID, LastName, FirstName, PositionID, Username, Password) values(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) " ;
    try{
        pst = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
        pst.setString(1, txtUserID.getText());
        pst.setString(2, txtLastName.getText());
        pst.setString(3, txtFirstName.getText());
        pst.setString(4, (String) comboPosition.getSelectedItem().toString().substring(0, 1));
        pst.setString(5, txtUsername.getText());
        pst.setString(6, txtPassword.getText());
        pst.execute();
        if(txtConfirmPassword.getText().equals(txtPassword.getText())){
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Saved New User Account");
        clear();
        }
        else{
          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Incompatible Password");
          txtConfirmPassword.setText("");
        }
        //UpdateEmployeeTable();
    }catch(Exception e){
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e);
    }

and also my UserAccount class where user can update/edit their information including their username:

  String sql = "update tblUserInfo set LastName = ?, FirstName = ?, PositionID = ?, Username = ?, Password = ? where UserID= ?";

 try {
    pst = conn.prepareStatement(sql);

    pst.setString(1, txtLastName.getText());
    pst.setString(2, txtFirstName.getText());
    pst.setString(3, (String) comboPos.getSelectedItem().toString().substring(0, 1));
    pst.setString(4, txtUserName.getText());
    pst.setString(5, txtPassword.getText());
    pst.setString(6, txtUserID.getText());
    pst.executeUpdate();
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "User Account Updated");

} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e);
}

how can i put a checking on this? Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4106

Answers (3)

Deepak Singh
Deepak Singh

Reputation: 460

you can do like that

Statement st=con.getConnection(.....);
String query= "select username from tables where username="uservalue"";
 ResultSet rs=st.executeQuery(query);
int value=0;
 while(rs.next())
 {
  value++;
  }
  if(value>1)
  {
  String query= "select username from tables where username="uservalue"";
   ResultSet rs=st.executeQuery(query);
       while(rs.next())
      {
        String user=rs.getString("username");

       }
          String updatequery="update tables set username="updatevalue"   where username="updatevalue"";
       int q=st.executeupdate(updatequery);
     }
       else 
     {
         insert query..........
   }

Upvotes: 0

Peter Lawrey
Peter Lawrey

Reputation: 533690

I would use something like this

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Column1='SomeValue')
    UPDATE Table1 SET (...) WHERE Column1='SomeValue'
ELSE
    INSERT INTO Table1 VALUES (...)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/miah/archive/2008/02/17/sql-if-exists-update-else-insert.aspx

Upvotes: 2

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 6499

One option is to do a count query of that username where the user id isn't the same, such as this:

select count(Username) from tblUserInfo where UserId != ?

If you find a result greater than zero, that user id is used by someone else, display the warning.

Upvotes: 1

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