getCatalogs Method (SQLServerDatabaseMetaData)

Retrieves the catalog names that are available in the connected server.

public java.sql.ResultSet getCatalogs()

Return Value

A SQLServerResultSet object.

Exceptions

SQLServerException

Remarks

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

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

Example

The following example demonstrates how to use the getCatalogs method to return the names of all the databases that are contained in Microsoft SQL Server, including the system databases.

public static void executeGetCatalogs(Connection con) {
   try {
      DatabaseMetaData dbmd = con.getMetaData();
      ResultSet rs = dbmd.getCatalogs();
      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();
   }
}

See Also

Reference

SQLServerDatabaseMetaData Class

Concepts

SQLServerDatabaseMetaData Methods
SQLServerDatabaseMetaData Members