get_column_info: Describe column of table in the DBMS

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Describe column of table in the DBMS

Description

The get_column_info() retrieves the column information of the DBMS table through the tbl_bdi object of dplyr.

Usage

get_column_info(df)

Arguments

df	a tbl_dbi.

Value

An object of data.frame.

Column information of the DBMS table

• SQLite DBMS connected RSQLite::SQLite():

  • name: column name

  • type: data type in R

• MySQL/MariaDB DBMS connected RMySQL::MySQL():

  • name: column name

  • Sclass: data type in R

  • type: data type of column in the DBMS

  • length: data length in the DBMS

• Oracle DBMS connected ROracle::dbConnect():

  • name: column name

  • Sclass: column type in R

  • type: data type of column in the DBMS

  • len: length of column(CHAR/VARCHAR/VARCHAR2 data type) in the DBMS

  • precision: precision of column(NUMBER data type) in the DBMS

  • scale: decimal places of column(NUMBER data type) in the DBMS

  • nullOK: nullability

Examples

library(dplyr)
# connect DBMS
con_sqlite <- DBI::dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), ":memory:")

# copy heartfailure to the DBMS with a table named TB_HEARTFAILURE
copy_to(con_sqlite, heartfailure, name = "TB_HEARTFAILURE", overwrite = TRUE)

con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_HEARTFAILURE") %>% 
  get_column_info
  
# Disconnect DBMS   
DBI::dbDisconnect(con_sqlite)

dlookr documentation built on July 9, 2023, 6:31 p.m.