Re: Retrieving field characteristics

2004-09-30 Thread Mark Matthews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Gibbons wrote: > On 27 Sep 2004 at 11:36, Rhino wrote: > > > >>I really have no idea how Java is getting the information. I haven't tried >>very many of the metadata methods yet so I don't know how much Java can >>actually see and what is hidden

Re: Retrieving field characteristics

2004-09-28 Thread Ian Gibbons
On 27 Sep 2004 at 11:36, Rhino wrote: > I really have no idea how Java is getting the information. I haven't tried > very many of the metadata methods yet so I don't know how much Java can > actually see and what is hidden. But I do know that it can see the > descriptions of the columns. > > I

Re: Retrieving field characteristics

2004-09-25 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:31, Rhino wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Michael Satterwhite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 12:29 PM > Subj

Re: Retrieving field characteristics

2004-09-25 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Michael Satterwhite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 12:29 PM Subject: Retrieving field characteristics > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > In order to make

Retrieving field characteristics

2004-09-25 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In order to make my field definitions more dynamic, I'd like to retrieve the field length definition from the database. E.g. If a field is described as varchar(5), I'd like to retrieve the "5" at runtime so as to limit the length of data a user can pre