Gets the type of the given column Name of the table Name. - Java java.sql

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Gets the type of the given column Name of the table Name.

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import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class Main{
    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(DbUtils.class);
    /**
     * Gets the type of the given column {@code columnName} of the table
     * {@code tableName}.
     * 
     * @param connection
     *            the connection to the database
     * @param tableName
     *            the name of the table that has the column
     * @param columnName
     *            the name of the column that will be used to get the type
     * @return the type of the column, or -1 if the column doesn't exist.
     * @throws SQLException
     *             if an error occurred while checking the type of the column
     */
    public static int getColumnType(final Connection connection,
            final String tableName, final String columnName)
            throws SQLException {
        int columnType = -1;

        ResultSet rs = null;
        try {
            rs = connection.getMetaData().getColumns(null, null, tableName,
                    columnName);
            if (rs.next()) {
                columnType = rs.getInt("SQL_DATA_TYPE");
            }
        } finally {
            try {
                if (rs != null) {
                    rs.close();
                }
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                    logger.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
                }
            }
        }

        return columnType;
    }
}

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