perl@1983 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks, I am generating an HTML page from a (Sybase) resultset of a select query (using latest versions of DBI and DBD::Sybase). In that, I am printing the column names, but along with column names, I also wanted to print the datatype and size of respective columns. Can someone please guide with regards to how can I get the datatypes and size of each column? I've gone through the DBI and DBD::Sybase + some online articles, but couldn't figure it out. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Datatype of fetch'ed columns using Perl-Sybase
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 03, 2012 at 15:18 UTC

    Have a look at the "catalog" functions of DBI. They return the database type of columns for a given query.

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      Thanks for the quick reply Corion! I went through those functions and if I understood correctly, they would return the datatype as a number representing their ISO counerpart. Is it possible to see the actual Sybase datatype (instead of number)?
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        You could certainly translate them yourself:

        First, create your translation table (ficticious data, of course):

        my %translation_table = (
        1=>"bool",
        27=>"char",
        13=>"dec",
        34=>"nul",
        55=>"etc...",
    );

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        Then, using the value from catalog functions, select and then print (or say) the appropriate data-type-word to your output.

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Re: Datatype of fetch'ed columns using Perl-Sybase
by erix (Prior) on Jul 03, 2012 at 16:37 UTC
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Re: Datatype of fetch'ed columns using Perl-Sybase
by mpeppler (Vicar) on Jul 27, 2012 at 14:51 UTC
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