java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException is unchecked runtime exception which is sub class of SQLException. Here “java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown database database_name”  exception occurred when connecting to database schema by JDBC. Please check below for more detail.

Sample Code

try
{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
connection=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/FacingIssuesOnITDB", "root", "facingissuesonit");
}
catch(ClassNotFoundException ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}

Output

java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown database 'facingissuesonitdb'
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:118)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:95)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionsMapping.translateException(SQLExceptionsMapping.java:122)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:862)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.(ConnectionImpl.java:444)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:230)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:226)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:664)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:247)
at com.fioit.examples.jdbc.connection.MyConnection.getConnectionMain(MyConnection.java:59)
at com.fioit.examples.jdbc.crud.CRUDOperation.main(CRUDOperation.java:20)

Issue

Above issue “java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown database database_name” occurred because no schema exist in MySQL database with name facingissuesonitdb.

Solution

In JDBC always handle java.sql.SQLException in your connection code also because if any issue happen for java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException can catch by SQLException block.

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