connection
A valid connection to an IBM DB2, Cloudscape, or Apache Derby database.
qualifier
A qualifier for DB2 databases running on OS/390 or z/OS servers. For other databases, pass NULL or an empty string.
schema
The schema which contains the tables. To match all schemas, pass '%'.
table-name
The name of the table or view. To match all tables in the database, pass NULL or an empty string.
column-name
The name of the column. To match all columns in the table, pass NULL or an empty string.
Returns a statement resource with a result set containing rows describing the columns matching the specified parameters. The rows are composed of the following columns:
| Column name | Description
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| TABLE_CAT | Name of the catalog. The value is NULL if this table does not have catalogs.
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| TABLE_SCHEM | Name of the schema.
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| TABLE_NAME | Name of the table or view.
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| COLUMN_NAME | Name of the column.
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| DATA_TYPE | The SQL data type for the column represented as an integer value.
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| TYPE_NAME | A string representing the data type for the column.
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| COLUMN_SIZE | An integer value representing the size of the column.
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| BUFFER_LENGTH | - Maximum number of bytes necessary to store data from this column.
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| DECIMAL_DIGITS | - The scale of the column, or NULL where scale is not applicable.
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| NUM_PREC_RADIX | - An integer value of either 10 (representing an exact numeric data type), 2 (representing an approximate numeric data type), or NULL (representing a data type for which radix is not applicable).
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| NULLABLE | An integer value representing whether the column is nullable or not.
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| REMARKS | Description of the column.
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| COLUMN_DEF | Default value for the column.
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| SQL_DATA_TYPE | An integer value representing the size of the column.
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| SQL_DATETIME_SUB | - Returns an integer value representing a datetime subtype code, or NULL for SQL data types to which this does not apply.
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| CHAR_OCTET_LENGTH | - Maximum length in octets for a character data type column, which matches COLUMN_SIZE for single-byte character set data, or NULL for non-character data types.
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| ORDINAL_POSITION | The 1-indexed position of the column in the table.
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| IS_NULLABLE | - A string value where 'YES' means that the column is nullable and 'NO' means that the column is not nullable.
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