DatabaseMetadata Methods With Catalog Parameters Now Error If Current Database Does Not Match.

In the v1.2 CTP version, the DatabaseMetadata methods for getting information about objects in a database (i.e. getTables(), getColumns(), ...) errors if your current database connection is in a different database than the object you are quering.

Is this the intended behavior going forward?

In my case I have access to both database A and database B. My current connection is in database A , but I am looking up object in database B.

ResultSet rs = conn.getDatabaseMetadata.getTables("B","dbo","%",{"TABLES" });


[junit] The database name component of the object qualifier must be the name of the current database.
[junit] com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The database name component of the object qualifier must be the name of
the current database.
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDatabaseError(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.getNextResult(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.doExecuteStatement(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement$StmtExecCmd.doExecute(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSCommand.execute(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeCommand(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeCommand(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeStatement(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeQueryInternal(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.getResultSet(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.getResultSet(Unknown Source)
[junit] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.getColumns(Unknown Source)


~Mike Hale