R/DBI.R
dbListFields-DatabaseConnectorConnection-character-method.Rd
List field names of a remote table
# S4 method for DatabaseConnectorConnection,character
dbListFields(conn, name, database = NULL, schema = NULL, ...)
A DBIConnection object, as returned by
dbConnect()
.
a character string with the name of the remote table.
Name of the database.
Name of the schema.
Other parameters passed on to methods.
dbListFields()
returns a character vector
that enumerates all fields
in the table in the correct order.
This also works for temporary tables if supported by the database.
The returned names are suitable for quoting with dbQuoteIdentifier()
.
If the table does not exist, an error is raised.
Invalid types for the name
argument
(e.g., character
of length not equal to one,
or numeric)
lead to an error.
An error is also raised when calling this method for a closed
or invalid connection.
dbColumnInfo()
to get the type of the fields.
Other DBIConnection generics:
DBIConnection-class
,
dbAppendTable()
,
dbCreateTable()
,
dbDataType()
,
dbDisconnect()
,
dbExecute()
,
dbExistsTable()
,
dbGetException()
,
dbGetInfo()
,
dbGetQuery()
,
dbIsReadOnly()
,
dbIsValid()
,
dbListObjects()
,
dbListResults()
,
dbListTables()
,
dbReadTable()
,
dbRemoveTable()
,
dbSendQuery()
,
dbSendStatement()
,
dbWriteTable()