Hello, i'm working with SQL's and in this bit of code i'm basically trying to fetch the data located in the 'date' column in my table.

Code:
                Statement pStmt = null;
		pStmt.executeUpdate("SELECT date FROM " + ticker);
		RS = pStmt.getResultSet();
		ArrayList<Date> dates = new ArrayList<Date>();
		while(RS.next())
		{
			if(RS.wasNull())
				System.out.println("Null");
			else
				System.out.println("Not Null");
			System.out.println(RS.getDate(1));
			dates.add(RS.getDate(1));
		}
However the error i am getting is this:

Code:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at Main.Database.getDateData(Database.java:193)
	at Main.Main.main(Main.java:23)
The line the nullPointer is coming up at is in red.

I have tried using both executeQuery and executeUpdate.

Thanks

-Alex