NullPointerException Java MySQL problem

[VictorN]

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.

                Statement pStmt = null;
		pStmt.executeUpdate("SELECT date FROM " + ticker);

However the error i am getting is this:

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.

You set the Statement pStmt to null. And after that you are trying to execute

pStmt.executeUpdate(...);

with the NULL-pointer!
So why do you wonder getting the error message?