Setting the locale for JDBC sessions

import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Properties;

public class GetAndSetLocale {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

     // If running under a Java 5 JVM, you need to load the JDBC driver
     // using Class.forname here

     Properties myProp = new Properties();
        myProp.put("user", "ExampleUser");
        myProp.put("password", "password123");

        // Set Locale to true en_GB on connection. After the connection
        // is established, the JDBC driver runs the statements in the
        // ConnSettings property.
        myProp.put("ConnSettings", "SET LOCALE TO en_GB");
        Connection conn;
        try {
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
                            "jdbc:vertica://VerticaHost:5433/ExampleDB",
                            myProp);

            // Execute a query to get the locale. The results should
            // show "en_GB" as the locale, since it was set by the
            // conn settings property.
            Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
            ResultSet rs = null;
            rs = stmt.executeQuery("SHOW LOCALE");
            System.out.print("Query reports that Locale is set to: ");
            while (rs.next()) {
                System.out.println(rs.getString(2).trim());
            }

            // Now execute a query to set locale.
            stmt.execute("SET LOCALE TO en_US");

            // Run query again to get locale.
            rs = stmt.executeQuery("SHOW LOCALE");
            System.out.print("Query now reports that Locale is set to: ");
            while (rs.next()) {
                System.out.println(rs.getString(2).trim());
            }
            // Clean up
            conn.close();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}