Column description

Hi!
I'm using MSSQL 2000 as database engine. So far i'm using DataBaseMetaData for getting column properties like type, name and so on. Now i want to get columns description (i put this description). is there any way to do it, but from java not from database?
Tnx :-)

i dont know how this works
SELECT * FROM ::fn_listextendedproperty(NULL,
'user', 'dbo', 'table', 'Test', 'column',
default)
but
the following code snippet might help u
ResultSetMetaData rsMd = rs.getMetaData();
               int numberOfColumns = rsMd.getColumnCount();
               for (int i = 1; i <= numberOfColumns; i++) {
                    cName = "unknown";
                    try {
                         cName = rsMd.getColumnName(i);
                         cType = rsMd.getColumnTypeName(i);where cname is the column name and ctype is column
typei don't want column name or column type :-) i want column description.
for example:
column name = idPrimaryKey
column type = int indentity
column description = primary key for this table .....
with getColumnName i get idPrimaryKey, with getColumnTypeName i get int indentity, but how can i get "primary key for this table ....."?

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