How to get equivalent of ResultSetMetaData without ResultSet

Question

I need to resolve a bunch of column names to column indexes (so as to use some of the nice ResultSetMetaData methods). However, the only way that I know how to

Answer 1

Maybe you could use

DatabaseMetaData databaseMetaData = connection.getMetaData();
databaseMetaData.getColumns(null, null, tableName, "%");

It returns one row for each table column.

In this case you'd use the returned ResultSet itself, not its ResultSetMetaData.

One advantage of this approach is, that it doesn't interfere with database locking and transactions.