# odbc_columns

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

odbc_columns — Lists the column names in specified tables

### Description

resource odbc_columns ( resource `$connection_id` [, string `$qualifier` [, string `$schema` [, string `$table_name` [, string `$column_name` ]]]] )

Lists all columns in the requested range. Returns an ODBC result identifier containing the information or `FALSE` on failure.

The result set has the following columns:

- TABLE_QUALIFIER
- TABLE_SCHEM
- TABLE_NAME
- COLUMN_NAME
- DATA_TYPE
- TYPE_NAME
- PRECISION
- LENGTH
- SCALE
- RADIX
- NULLABLE
- REMARKS

The result set is ordered by TABLE_QUALIFIER, TABLE_SCHEM and TABLE_NAME.

The `schema` , `table_name` and `column_name` arguments accept search patterns ('%' to match zero or more characters and '_' to match a single character).

See also odbc_columnprivileges() to retrieve associated privileges.