Retrieve Supported Column Type Info from a Database

DESCRIPTION:

Retrieves a table containing the data types supported by the connected database.

USAGE:

jdbcTypeInfo(driverClass, con, user, password, keepAlive)

ARGUMENTS:

driverClass
The name of the Java class for the required JDBC driver.
con
The JDBC connection string.
user
The user name with access to the database.
password
The password for given the user name on the database.
keepAlive
If TRUE, keeps the database connection alive after executing the query. The default is FALSE.

DETAILS:

A direct interface to the java.sql.DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo() method. See the Java documentation for description of the fields in the table. Useful for debugging.

VALUE:

A data.frame containing the entire table.

REFERENCES:

EXAMPLES:

## Not run: 
jdbcTypeInfo(driverClass="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver", 
            con="jdbc:sqlserver://qadb-s2k:1433;databaseName=testdb;user=testqa;password=testqa;", 
            user="testqa", password="testqa")
## End(Not run)