Java tutorial
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.ResultSetMetaData; import java.sql.Statement; public class Main { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { Connection conn = null; Statement s = null; Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"); conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Driver={SQL Server};" + "Server=.\\SQLEXPRESS;" + "Trusted_Connection=yes;" + "Database=myDb"); s = conn.createStatement(); s.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM dbo.SalesSummary WHERE 0 = 1"); ResultSet rs = s.getResultSet(); ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData(); for (int i = 1; i <= rsmd.getColumnCount(); i++) { System.out.println(String.format("-- Column %d --", i)); System.out.println(String.format("Column name: %s", rsmd.getColumnName(i))); System.out.println(String.format("Database-specific type name: %s", rsmd.getColumnTypeName(i))); System.out.println(String.format("Column size (DisplaySize): %d", rsmd.getColumnDisplaySize(i))); System.out.println(String.format("java.sql.Type of column: %d", rsmd.getColumnType(i))); System.out.println(); } s.close(); conn.close(); } }