Beginner question about Java and database file

Here is my problem:

There is a sports simulation that saves everything to a database file with multiple tables. Users would like a utility that would let them filter the tables for certain values and then export to an HTML report.

As an excited amateur to programming with java (some experience with Visual Basic, a little with C++), I am trying to figure out what resources I will need to pursue/read/study to plan this utility. What should I be looking into? Is this possible??

Please help!!

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1) learn java WELL
2) u'll prob need sql so learn it www.sqlcourse.com or somethign
3) check out jdbc

Thanks for the reply and for the link to the SQL tutorial.