Determines which type of metadata information is included in result sets when an application calls DatabaseMetaData methods.
Valid Values
2 | 4
Behavior
If set to 2, the driver queries database catalogs for column information.
If set to 4, a hint is provided to the driver to emulate getColumns() calls using the ResultSetMetaData object instead of querying database catalogs for column information. Using emulation can improve performance because the SQL statement that is formulated by the emulation is less complex than the SQL statement that is formulated using getColumns(). The argument to getColumns() must evaluate to a single table. If it does not, because of a wildcard or null value, for example, the driver reverts to the default behavior for getColumns() calls.