Interesting topic. Let's not focus only on sports or the workplace but on life in general. Too many of the younger generations show less and less respect for...

When this happened to me I felt betrayed by a company that I valued greatly.  In retrospect Frank (above post) hit the nail on the head.  I'm better off with...

Try this:

<%@ page import="java.sql.*"  %>

String driver = "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver";

String url = "jdbc:odbc:{your sql server name here}";

String sSQL;

ResultSet rs = null;

String intrnalfield;

Build your sSQL string

in a try block

    Class.forName(driver);

    con =...

I hope you were joking when you made the statement that the database should be a government entity.  Think about that implication for a minute and "Big Brother" consequences.