<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="reference" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="DatabaseMetaData interface" /> <meta name="abstract" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="jdbcdbmd" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>DatabaseMetaData interface</title> </head> <body id="jdbcdbmd"><a name="jdbcdbmd"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">DatabaseMetaData interface</h1> <div><p></p> <div class="section"><p>You can use a <a href="javadoc/com/ibm/as400/access/AS400JDBCDatabaseMetaData.html#NAVBAR_TOP"> DatabaseMetaData</a> object to obtain information about the database as a whole as well as catalog information.</p> <p>The following example shows how to return a list of tables, which is a catalog function:</p> <pre> // Connect to the server. Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:as400://mySystem"); // Get the database metadata from the connection. DatabaseMetaData dbMeta = c.getMetaData(); // Get a list of tables matching the following criteria. String catalog = "myCatalog"; String schema = "mySchema"; String table = "myTable%"; // % indicates search pattern String types[] = {"TABLE", "VIEW", "SYSTEM TABLE"}; ResultSet rs = dbMeta.getTables(catalog, schema, table, types); // Iterate through the ResultSet to get the values. // Close the Connection. c.close();</pre> </div> </div> </body> </html>