You'll want to look for metadata in the man pages of the DBI. You'll also want to make sure your particular DBD supports the DBI calls.
-----Original Message----- From: Umesh Barik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 5:36 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: need help to know the column names and data types Hi I am new to DBI programming. I am trying to write a generic package which will handle all the database operations like create table, insert records, delete and also modify records. For a query user need to enter the table name only and the package will get the column names, data types, do the query and return the records. For that I need to know is there any way to get the column names and data types for those columns from the database? Please help me. umesh
