Retrieves the schema names that are available in the current database.

public java.sql.ResultSet getSchemas()

Return Value

A SQLServerResultSet object.

Exceptions

SQLServerException

Remarks

This getSchemas method is specified by the getSchemas method in the java.sql.DatabaseMetaData interface.

The result set returned by the getSchemas method will contain the following information:

Name Type Description

TABLE_SCHEM

string

The name of the schema.

TABLE_CATALOG

string

The catalog name for the schema.
Note: For more information about the data returned by the getSchemas method, see "sys.schemas (Transact-SQL)" in SQL Server Books Online.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to use the getSchemas method to return information about the catalog and its associated schema names in SQL Server 2005, given that the connection argument specifies the database to be used.

 
public static void executeGetSchemas(Connection con) {
   try {
      DatabaseMetaData dbmd = con.getMetaData();
      ResultSet rs = dbmd.getSchemas();
      ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();

      // Display the result set data.
      int cols = rsmd.getColumnCount();
      while(rs.next()) {
         for (int i = 1; i <= cols; i++) {
            System.out.println(rs.getString(i));
         }
      }
      rs.close();
   } 

   catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
   }
}

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