I love reading Alex’s The Daily WTF and I noticed the recent Finally WTF is relevant to JDBC in an important way. All *good* JDBC developers already know you should close your result sets, statements, and connections (in that order) in a finally block when you are done with them, but do you all [...]

Because For loops are vastly superior to If statements I give my own WTF for the day:

private boolean someMethod() {
   int count = 0;
   ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery("select count(*) FROM …");
   for ( ; rs.next(); ) {
      count = rs.getInt(1);
      break;
   }
   if ( 0 < count ) return false;
   // [...]