Designing Performance-Optimized JDBC Applications
- Presents general guidelines to help solve common JDBC system performance issues
- http://www.datadirect.com/developer/jdbc/topics/perfoptjdbc/index.ssp

JavaWorld Topical Index - Databases
- A collection of JavaWorld articles on databases.
- http://www.javaworld.com/channel_content/jw-jdbc-index.html

The Design of a Robust Persistence Layer for Relational Databases
- An AmbySoft Inc. white paper by Scott W. Ambler. This design reflects author's several years of experience building and using persistence layers in several languages.
- http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/persistenceLayer.html

Getting Started with JDBC
- Learn how to get started with JDBC, a mechanism that allows Java to talk to databases.
- http://www.javacoffeebreak.com/articles/jdbc/