Java API Tutorial - Java DatabaseMetaData .getCatalogs ()

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Syntax

DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() has the following syntax.

ResultSet getCatalogs()   throws SQLException

Example

In the following code shows how to use DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() method.

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
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public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Connection conn = getHSQLConnection();

    DatabaseMetaData meta = conn.getMetaData();
    ResultSet catalogs = meta.getCatalogs();
     
     while (catalogs.next()) {
       String catalog = catalogs.getString(1);  //"TABLE_CATALOG"
       System.out.println("catalog: "+catalog);
     }
   

    conn.close();
  }

  private static Connection getHSQLConnection() throws Exception {
    Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver");
    String url = "jdbc:hsqldb:data/tutorial";
    return DriverManager.getConnection(url, "sa", "");
  }

}

The code above generates the following result.

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