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What is DatabaseMetaData? DatabaseMetaData provides comprehensive information about the database. This interface is implemented by the driver vendors to allow the user to obtain information about the tables of a relational database as a part of JDBC application. User can use this interface to deal with various underlying DBMSs. Some of the methods are:
getDatabaseMajorVersion(), getDatabaseMinorVersion(), getDatabaseProductName(), getDatabaseProductVersion(), getMaxRowSize(), getPrimaryKeys(), getURL(), getUserName() etc.
public interface DatabaseMetaData
This interface is implemented by driver vendors.
It lets users know the capabilities of a Database Management System (DBMS) in combination with the JDBC driver that is used with it.
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