supports - Detect whether property is supported by database metadata object

Syntax

Description

a = supports(dbmeta) returns a structure that contains the properties of dbmeta and its property values, 1 or 0. A value of 1 indicates that the property is supported, and 0 indicates that the property is not supported.

a = supports(dbmeta, 'property') returns 1 or 0 for the property field of dbmeta. A value of 1 indicates that the property is supported, and 0 indicates that the property is not supported.

a.property returns the value of property after you have created a using the supports function.

Examples

1. Check if dbmeta supports group-by clauses.

   a = supports(dbmeta, 'GroupBy')
   a =
        1
   

2. View the value of all properties of dbmeta.

   a = supports(dbmeta)
   

   The returned result is a list of properties and their values.

3. See the value of the GroupBy property by running:

   a.GroupBy
   a =
        1
   

See Also

database | dmd | get | ping

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