odbcListColumns function

List columns in an object.

Lists the names and types of each column (field) of a specified object.

odbcListColumns(connection, ...)

Arguments

• connection: A connection object, as returned by dbConnect().
• ...: Parameters specifying the object.

Returns

A data frame with name and type columns, listing the object's fields.

Details

The object to inspect must be specified as one of the arguments (e.g. table = "employees"); depending on the driver and underlying data store, additional specification arguments may be required.