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service Column
Description describes the common properties of a database column. Developers Guide 12.4.3 Database Access - Database Design - Using SDBCX to Access the Database Design - Column Service

Exported Interfaces
XDataDescriptorFactory | [ OPTIONAL ] Description optional, could be used to copy a database column.
::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertySet | provides information about and access to the properties from an implementation.

Properties' Summary
Name | is the name of the column.
Type | is the ::com::sun::star::sdbc::DataType of the column.
TypeName | is the type name used by the database. If the column type is a user-defined type, then a fully-qualified type name is returned. Note: May be empty.
Precision | gets a column's number of decimal digits.
Scale | gets a column's number of digits to right of the decimal point.
IsNullable | indicates the nullability of values in the designated column.
IsAutoIncrement | indicates whether the column is automatically numbered, thus read-only.
IsCurrency | indicates whether the column is a cash value.
IsRowVersion | [ OPTIONAL ] indicates that the column contains some kind of time or date stamp used to track updates.
Description | [ OPTIONAL ] keeps a description of the object.
DefaultValue | [ OPTIONAL ] keeps a default value for a column, is provided as string.

Properties' Details
Name
[ readonly ] string Name; Description is the name of the column.
Type
[ readonly ] long Type; Description is the ::com::sun::star::sdbc::DataType of the column.
TypeName
[ readonly ] string TypeName; Description is the type name used by the database. If the column type is a user-defined type, then a fully-qualified type name is returned. Note: May be empty.
Precision
[ readonly ] long Precision; Description gets a column's number of decimal digits.
Scale
[ readonly ] long Scale; Description gets a column's number of digits to right of the decimal point.
IsNullable
[ readonly ] long IsNullable; Description indicates the nullability of values in the designated column. See also ::com::sun::star::sdbc::ColumnValue
IsAutoIncrement
[ readonly ] boolean IsAutoIncrement; Description indicates whether the column is automatically numbered, thus read-only. See also ::com::sun::star::sdbc::ColumnValue
IsCurrency
[ readonly ] boolean IsCurrency; Description indicates whether the column is a cash value.
IsRowVersion
[ readonly ] boolean IsRowVersion; [ OPTIONAL ] Description indicates that the column contains some kind of time or date stamp used to track updates.
Description
[ readonly ] string Description; [ OPTIONAL ] Description keeps a description of the object.
DefaultValue
[ readonly ] string DefaultValue; [ OPTIONAL ] Description keeps a default value for a column, is provided as string.

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