To manipulate data you actually need executeUpdate()
rather than executeQuery()
.
Here’s an extract from the executeUpdate()
javadoc which is already an answer at its own:
Executes the given SQL statement, which may be an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement or an SQL statement that returns nothing, such as an SQL DDL statement.
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