How to specify null value in MS Access through the JDBC-ODBC bridge?

Question

I am not able to call setNull on PreparedStatement using MS Access (sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver)

preparedStatement.setNull(index, sqltype). 

Is there a workaround for this? For LONGBINARY data type, I tried the following calls, neither worked.

setNull(index, java.sql.Types.VARBINARY)
setNull(index, java.sql.Types.BINARY)

java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]Invalid SQL data type
        at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(JdbcOdbc.java:6957)
        at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(JdbcOdbc.java:7114)
        at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLBindInParameterNull(JdbcOdbc.java:986)
        at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcPreparedStatement.setNull(JdbcOdbcPreparedStatement.java:363)

Answer 1

The answer that I have observed to work "quite well" for binding null to most data types with JDBC 4.1, Java 7, MS Access 2013 and the JDBC-ODBC bridge is this one, which I've built into jOOQ:

switch (sqlType) {
    case Types.BINARY:
    case Types.VARBINARY:
    case Types.LONGVARBINARY:
    case Types.BLOB:
        stmt.setNull(nextIndex(), Types.VARCHAR);
        break;

    default:
        stmt.setString(nextIndex(), null);
        break;
}