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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:18:47 +0000
From: "Daniel J. Summers" <daniel.lists@djs-consulting.com>
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Subject: Re: getting list of columns from a query
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On 08/22/2010 05:27 PM, c k wrote:
> As I am using MS Access for a long time, many tools like ms access 
> provides a way to get the list of columns from a query. (using filed 
> list in combo boxes in ms access). But is it possible to get such list 
> of columns from a query where it is not known to the user, that which 
> columns are defined in the base 'SELECT' statement? How? I dynamically 
> created SQL statements many times this situation occurs where the 
> columns are not fixed and we have to get the list of columns from such 
> a query.

What language are you using, and what technique in that language are you 
using?  (ex. Java and JDBC, C# and ADO.NET, PHP and PDO, or PHP and 
PostgreSQL native)  Most of these provide a way to get to the column 
names, but they're language- and technique-dependent.