What is DatabaseMetaData?

Answer

• DatabaseMetaData is a class provided by java.sql package to get all the information about the database, viz. tables in the data dictionary, names of the stored procedures, primary keys of table, etc.
• The DatabaseMetaData object is created by calling the getMetaData() method of the Connection interface.
• The syntax is so as follows:

DataBaseMetaData dbm = con . getMetaData();