SQL parser library for Java - Retrieve the list of table names present in a SQL statement

Question

I am looking for a SQL Library that will parse an SQL statement and return some sort of Object representation of the SQL statement. My main objective is actually to be able

Answer 1

I doubt you'll find anything prewritten that you can just use. The problem is that ISO/ANSI SQL is a very complicated grammar — something like more than 600 production rules IIRC.

Terence Parr's ANTLR parser generator (Java, but can generate parsers in any one of a number of target languages) has several SQL grammars available, including a couple for PL/SQL, one for a SQL Server SELECT statement, one for mySQL, and one for ISO SQL.

No idea how complete/correct/up-to-date they are.

http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list