/** * JDBC Interface to Mysql functions * *
* This class provides information about the database as a whole. * *
* Many of the methods here return lists of information in ResultSets. * You can use the normal ResultSet methods such as getString and getInt * to retrieve the data from these ResultSets. If a given form of * metadata is not available, these methods show throw a java.sql.SQLException. * *
* Some of these methods take arguments that are String patterns. These
* methods all have names such as fooPattern. Within a pattern String "%"
* means match any substring of 0 or more characters and "_" means match
* any one character.
*
* @author Mark Matthews