How to validate sql query syntax?

Question

java 1.4 Sql server 2000

i am taking input of sql query (for validation of field value against values retrieved by executing sql query) from admin user which will be

Answer 1

You could do SET FMTONLY ON and then execute the query and see if it works. Just remember to do SET FMTONLY OFF in a finally block, since it's a connection-level setting.