How do you determine a column's data type?

Question

Let's say I have a DB Table out there and I have NO WAY of knowing that column 1 is a CHAR, column 2 is a SMALLINT or whatever. I can write sql to select * from table and see everything, but how do I know what each column's data type is?

Answer 1

I found it. Thanks, and for any other people who need the solution, here is what I found on another thread:
int type;               try {                    type = i_metaData.getColumnType(column+1);               }               catch (SQLException e) {                    return super.getColumnClass(column);               } switch(type) {               case Types.CHAR:               case Types.VARCHAR:               case Types.LONGVARCHAR:                    return String.class;               case Types.BIT:                    return Boolean.class;               case Types.TINYINT:               case Types.SMALLINT:               case Types.INTEGER:                    return Integer.class;               case Types.BIGINT:                    return Long.class;               case Types.FLOAT:               case Types.DOUBLE:                    return Double.class;               case Types.DATE:                    return java.sql.Date.class;               case Types.TIMESTAMP: //Date Time                    return java.sql.Date.class;               case Types.DECIMAL: // Currency,Decimal                    return Float.class;               default:                    return Object.class;        } }