Database lock acquisition failure and hsqldb

Question

I was trying to connect to a hsql db. I created one by running from C:\myhsql:

java -cp .;C:\hsql\lib\hsqldb.jar org.hsqldb.Server -database.0 file:db\mydb -dbname.0 MYDB

This created mydb in a directory called db. This folder now has a .lck,tmp,script,properties files with name mydb, and similar files with name MYDB in current folder .

In java code I tried

Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver");
connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hsqldb:file:db/sjdb", "SA", "");

When I run the program, I am getting this error:

java.sql.SQLException: Database lock acquisition failure: lockFile: org.hsqldb.persist.LockFile@f3811c1a[file =C:\myhsql\db\mydb.lc
k, exists=true, locked=false, valid=false, ] method: checkHeartbeat read: 2010-10-19 12:46:09 heartbeat - read: -6750 ms.
...

Here is the stacktrace:

java.sql.SQLException: Database lock acquisition failure: lockFile: org.hsqldb.persist.LockFile@f3811c1a[file =C:\myhsql\db\sjdb.lc
k, exists=true, locked=false, valid=false, ] method: checkHeartbeat read: 2010-10-19 12:46:09 heartbeat - read: -6750 ms.
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.Util.sqlException(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.Util.sqlException(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver.getConnection(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
        at ConnectHSQLDB.main(ConnectHSQLDB.java:20)
Caused by: org.hsqldb.HsqlException: Database lock acquisition failure: lockFile: org.hsqldb.persist.LockFile@f3811c1a[file =C:\myhsql\db\sjdb.lck, exists=true, locked=false, valid=false, ] method: checkHeartbeat read: 2010-10-19 12:46:09 heartbeat - read: -6750 ms.
        at org.hsqldb.error.Error.error(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.persist.LockFile.newLockFileLock(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.persist.Logger.acquireLock(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.persist.Logger.openPersistence(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.Database.reopen(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.Database.open(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.DatabaseManager.getDatabase(Unknown Source)
        at org.hsqldb.DatabaseManager.newSession(Unknown Source)
        ... 6 more
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at ConnectHSQLDB.main(ConnectHSQLDB.java:32)

Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong? I can connect to the db using SwingDBManager and can insert, delete, and select records in the db. I was not running DBManager when I tried the java code. Still the lock problem happens.

Answer 1

The first command starts a server. This server locks the database files so that "others" cannot modify them. You should use "-dbname.0 mydb" instead of "MYDB" as it should be in lowercase.

Your Java connection URL to connect to the database is wrong. You should use "jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/mydb" as the connection string. While the database files are locked by the server, you can access the database server but you cannot access the database "in-process" with a file: URL.