public abstract int executeUpdate () throws SQLException

Executes the SQL statement in this PreparedStatement object, which must be an SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) statement, such as INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE; or an SQL statement that returns nothing, such as a DDL statement.

Returns:  either (1) the row count for SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements or (2) 0 for SQL statements that return nothing

Exceptions:
SQLException    if a database access error occurs; this method is called on a closed PreparedStatement or the SQL statement returns a ResultSet object
SQLTimeoutException    when the driver has determined that the timeout value that was specified by the setQueryTimeout method has been exceeded and has at least attempted to cancel the currently running Statement