database access

[drsmooth]

because the output doesnt seem to be working correctly...als o a new exception comes up before the closing DB exception:

java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Lexical error at line 1, column 33.  Encounter
ed: "\u2019" (8217), after : "".
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory.getSQLException(Unknow
n Source)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.wrapArgsForTransport
AcrossDRDA(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unkn
own Source)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.generateCsSQLException(Unknown Source
)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.wrapInSQLException
(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.handleException(Un
known Source)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.handleException(Unknown So
urce)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.ConnectionChild.handleException(Unknown So
urce)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedStatement.execute(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedStatement.execute(Unknown Source)
        at DataBaseReader.main(DataBaseReader.java:25)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Lexical error at line 1, column 33.  Encounter
ed: "\u2019" (8217), after : "".
        ... 11 more
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[drsmooth]

actually it seems the tutorial i copied it from used a wierd form of single quote...i fixed the problem thanks for all youre help...im gonna try and help out the begginer-ish questions on this forum if i can...im quite a noob myself though :(

im off to work on writing objects to the DB, hopefully i wont be starting any threads soon lol