CURRENT_CATALOG
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The CURRENT_CATALOG() function produces the dialect dependent expression to produce the current default catalog for the JDBC connection.
SELECT current_catalog;
create.select(currentCatalog()).fetch();
The result being, for example
+-----------------+ | current_catalog | +-----------------+ | my_database | +-----------------+
In some dialects, the schema and the catalog is the same thing, in case of which this function produces the same value as CURRENT_SCHEMA
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
currentCatalog()
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL
database()
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Databricks, Postgres, Snowflake, YugabyteDB
current_database()
ClickHouse
currentDatabase()
Firebird, SQLite
''
Informix
dbinfo('dbname')
SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
db_name()
ASE, Access, BigQuery, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Oracle, Redshift, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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