Database Wrapper Questions

Just a quicky, currently constructing a project for university and come up against a bit of a hurdle. I have a class called DatabaseConnect, now this connects to a MYSQL database, and has several methods, such as update etc... The problem comes when I call any of these methods from in another class, the class itself is public and i realise how to call a method from another class using:

Code:

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DatabaseConnect.DatabaseConnect;

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I could always extends the login class, which would allow me to access all these, but has anyone a better idea?

P.s. if relevant here is the full source code:

Code:

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import java.sql.*;
/**
 *
 * @author g9015395
 */
public class DatabaseConnect
{
    private Connection mysqlConnection;
    private Statement mysqlStatement;
    private ResultSet queryResultSet;
 
    public DatabaseConnect(String username, String password) throws SQLException
    {
        try
        {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            mysqlConnection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/footballLeague",
            username, password);
            mysqlStatement = mysqlConnection.createStatement();
        } catch(ClassNotFoundException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    public String hasDatabaseConnection() throws SQLException
    {
        String databaseStatus;
        databaseStatus = "closed";
        if(mysqlConnection.isClosed()== false)
        {
            databaseStatus = "Open";
            return databaseStatus;
        }
        else
        {
            return databaseStatus;
        }
    }
    public void getDatabaseInfomation() throws SQLException
    {
        DatabaseMetaData mysqlDatabaseMetaData = mysqlConnection.getMetaData();
        System.out.println("Database: "+ mysqlDatabaseMetaData.getDatabaseProductVersion());
        System.out.println("Driver: "+ mysqlDatabaseMetaData.getDriverVersion());
        System.out.println("URL: "+mysqlDatabaseMetaData.getURL()+ "Username: "+mysqlDatabaseMetaData.getUserName());
    }
    public void runSelectQuery(String mysqlSelectUserStatement) throws SQLException
    {
        if(mysqlSelectUserStatement.isEmpty()==false)
        {
            queryResultSet = mysqlStatement.executeQuery(mysqlSelectUserStatement);
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("An error has occured, no SQL given");
        }
    }
    public void runDeleteQuery(String mysqlUserDeleteUserStatement) throws SQLException
    {
        if(mysqlUserDeleteUserStatement.isEmpty()==false)
        {
            mysqlStatement.executeUpdate(mysqlUserDeleteUserStatement);
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("An error has occured, no SQL given");
        }
    }
    public void runUpdateQuery(String mysqlUserUpdateUserStatement) throws SQLException
    {
        if(mysqlUserUpdateUserStatement.isEmpty()==false)
        {
            mysqlStatement.executeUpdate(mysqlUserUpdateUserStatement);
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("An error has occured, no SQL given");
        }
    }
    public void runInsertQuery(String mysqlUserInsertUserStatement) throws SQLException
    {
        if(mysqlUserInsertUserStatement.isEmpty()==false)
        {
            mysqlStatement.executeUpdate(mysqlUserInsertUserStatement);
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("An error has occured, no SQL given");
        }
    }
    public void closeDatabaseConnection() throws SQLException
    {
        mysqlStatement.close();
        mysqlConnection.close();
    }
}

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Can you post the code how do you use those methods with created object in another class?

methinks this is a case where 'static' would come useful.