Passing data to a MySQL database

Hi I'm having a little trouble passing a few variablesin to a database using a java servlet, here is the code I am working with and what I have attempted so far...

Code :

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String ID = request.getParameter("ID"); 
	String name = request.getParameter("name");
	String surname = request.getParameter("surname");
	String degree = request.getParameter("degree");
	String DOB = request.getParameter("DOB");

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These are my variables which pulled form another HTML form

I want to pass these into a table 'students' which is already created.

the trouble I am having is concatenating the statement so it will work through Mysql, I am sure it is very simple but I just can't figure it out.

This is what I have tried so far

Code :

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String updateSQL = "insert into students (studentno, firstname, surname, degreecode, dob) values '" + ID + "',"+"'" + name + ",'"+"'" + surname + ",'"+"'" + degree + ",'"+"'" + DOB + "'}";

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Thanks in advance for any help!

Nevermind, sorted it out ;)

this is the code if anyone is interested...

Code :

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String updateSQL = "insert into students (studentno, firstname, surname, degreecode, dob) values  ('" + ID + "',"+"'" + name + "',"+"'" + surname + "', "+"'" + degree + "' ,"+"'" + DOB + "')";

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