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Revision as of 15:57, 13 March 2009
SYSCOLUMNS
Class
SQL Applications
Purpose
Description of the table columns available in the catalog
See Also
DATA TYPES, SELECT, SYSTEM TABLES
Description
System Tables are system defined read-only tables. You can query these tables using the SELECT statement.
Column | Data Type | Width | Description |
---|---|---|---|
TABLE_CAT | C | 30 | Table catalog |
TABLE_SCHEM | C | 30 | Table schema |
TABLE_NAME | C | 30 | Table name |
COLUMN_NAME | C | 25 | Column name |
DATA_TYPE | N | 2 | SQL data type |
TYPE_NAME | C | 30 | Data source dependent type name |
COLUMN_SIZE | N | 3 | Precision |
BUFFER_LENGTH | L | 1 | Reserved |
DECIMAL_DIGITS | N | 2 | Scale |
NUM_PREC_RADIX | N | 2 | Radix (typically either 10 or 2) |
NULLABLE | N | 2 | Is NULL allowed? |
REMARKS | C | 25 | Comment describing column |
COLUMN_DEF | C | 30 | Default value |
SQL_DATA_TYPE | N | 1 | Reserved |
SQL_DATETIME_SUB | N | 1 | Reserved |
CHAR_OCTET_LENGTH | N | 1 | For char types the maximum number of bytes in the column |
ORDINAL_POSITION | N | 4 | Index of column in table (starting at 1) |
IS_NULLABLE | C | 3 | "NO" means column definitely does not allow NULL values; "YES" means the column might allow NULL values. An empty string means unknown. |
Example
EXEC SQL SELECT * FROM syscolumns WHERE type_name = ’DATETIME’;
Products
Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer