processing-results-retrieve-result-set-information.md

title	Retrieve Result Set Information (ODBC)
description	Processing Results - Retrieve Result Set Information
author	markingmyname
ms.author	maghan
ms.date	03/03/2017
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	native-client
ms.topic	reference
helpviewer_keywords	result sets [ODBC] result sets [ODBC], fetching

Processing Results - Retrieve Result Set Information

[!INCLUDESQL Server Azure SQL Database Synapse Analytics PDW]

To get information about a result set

1. Call SQLNumResultCols to get the number of columns in the result set.

2. For each column in the result set:

   • Call SQLDescribeCol to get information about the result column.

   Or

   • Call SQLColAttribute to get specific descriptor information about the result column.

See Also

Process Results (ODBC)

Determining the Characteristics of a Result Set (ODBC)