In the previous tutorial, we have discussed about what is ResultSetMetaData with example. DatabaseMetaData is some thing similar like ResultSetMetaData.
Here we listed some of the important points about DatabaseMetaData in JDBC.
java.sql.DatabaseMetaData dbMetaData = connection.getMetaData();
package com.java.session.ninteen;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
public class JdbcDatabaseMetaDataExample {
static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/emp";
static final String USER = "root";
static final String PASS = "PASSWORD";
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Connection connection = null;
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL, USER, PASS);
java.sql.DatabaseMetaData dbMetaData = connection.getMetaData();
System.out.println("Database Name= "
+ dbMetaData.getDatabaseProductName());
System.out.println("Database version= "
+ dbMetaData.getDatabaseProductVersion());
System.out.println("Database Driver version= "
+ dbMetaData.getDriverVersion());
System.out.println("Sql keywords = " + dbMetaData.getSQLKeywords());
System.out.println("numeric functions= "
+ dbMetaData.getNumericFunctions());
System.out.println("String functions= "
+ dbMetaData.getStringFunctions());
System.out.println("Search String Escapre= "
+ dbMetaData.getSearchStringEscape());
System.out.println("Supported storage procedures= "
+ dbMetaData.supportsStoredProcedures());
System.out.println("getMaxRowSize=" + dbMetaData.getMaxRowSize());
System.out.println("getMaxStatement length= "
+ dbMetaData.getMaxStatementLength());
System.out.println("get max tables in a select query= "
+ dbMetaData.getMaxTablesInSelect());
System.out.println("get Max Length of Table Name= "
+ dbMetaData.getMaxTableNameLength());
System.out.println("jdbc api version is= "
+ dbMetaData.getJDBCMinorVersion());
connection.close();
}
}