Parsing SQL Statements using java

Question

I need to parse sql statements and get column names and table names. I tried with sample code. I got table names but I am stucked to get column names for each table.

Answer 1

You will need to create a parser for your SQL grammar. ANTLR allows to create such parsers but it can be quite difficult to create a grammar.

Here is a list of exisiting grammar for ANTLR http://www.antlr3.org/grammar/list.html

It contains grammar for mysql, oracle SQL that should work for you.