How do I also get headers for a table extracted in an SQL query

When I run:

>> results = runsqlscript(conn,'scriptfile');

I get a results output where the data is without the headers I can see when I run the same sql script via another program. How do I also get the headers in the matlab environment?

Answer 1

[Chidvi Modala]

From my understanding, you are trying to get column headers from table. When the SQL script executes, it returns two cursor objects that contain the imported data from each query in a cursor object array. You can use the following example to extract column headers from a table

datasource = 'MS SQL Server Auth';
conn = database(datasource,'',''); % Create an ODBC database connection
scriptfile = 'compare_sales.sql'; % Run the SQL script
results = runsqlscript(conn,scriptfile);
data = results(2).Data; % Display the imported data for the second query.
names = columnnames(results(2)) % Retrieve column header names from the second query

You can refer to thisdocumentation

The runsqlscript function will be removed in a future release. You can use the executeSQLScript function instead.

[Thomas Skov]

Thanks for the nice answer. However, I have the issue that my results output:

results = runsqlscript(conn,scriptfile);

does not contain two objects which mean I cannot run:

data = results(2).Data;

My cursor is only a 1x1 cursor.

Thanks in advance