how many fild updated

hi every body ... ihave this function to update the database

what i want to understand is how to know how many record updated

in my database

void updating(String a,String b)

{

try{

String driver ="sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver";

String url="jdbc:odbc:db1";

Class.forName( driver );

Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);

String sql;

Statement stmt;

sql="update APPDATA set PAN='"+b+"' where PAN='"+a+"'";

stmt=con.createStatement();

stmt.executeUpdate(sql);

con.close();

stmt.close();

}

catch (Exception e)

{

System.out.println(e);

}

}

[1080 byte] By [mostafa_khattaba] at [2007-11-26 13:45:44]