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Determine the Number of Fields in a Record from the Result Set

Determine the Number of Fields in a Record from the Result Set

This can be done by using ResultSetMetaData. For example, to get the number of columns you can use:

 /* get the meta-information about the result set */ResultSetMetaData metaData = rs.getMetaData(); // _"rs" is of typeResultSet/* get the number of columns in the result set */int numberOfColumns = metaData.getColumnCount();/* now, print the column name and value */for (int i = 1; i 
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