Thread: RE: [INTERFACES] a few additional JDBC points??

RE: [INTERFACES] a few additional JDBC points??

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"Ansley, Michael"
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>> > 2. Is it possible to enumerate or discover the tables in a 
>> database??
>> 
>> Yes. Once you have a Connection, get a DatabaseMetaData object (using
>> getMetaData() ), and use the getTables() method.

>From different message:
> using something like DAO on a Win32 platform, then you get a nice object
> hierarchy which you can use to discover the data model, but otherwise you
> are reduced to SQL.  And DAO can't give you a list of databases!!  This is

Well, it looks like the driver takes care of that too.


MikeA