Thanks. I got the information from INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLUMNS.

While retrieving the data from the result of query I faced following problem.

mysql> select select COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, IS_NULLABLE, CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, NUMERIC_PRECISION from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where table_name='account');

In coding I run the query using mysql_real_query() whose result is stored in

pResult = mysql_store_result(pMySQLDB);
fields = mysql_fetch_field(pResult);
my_ulonglong noOfRows = mysql_num_rows(pResult);
row = mysql_fetch_row(pResult);

it will not return any rows.
But in fields I get select COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, NUMERIC_PRECISION that I don't want.
I want the value of these field like "amit, "MY_VAR_STRING", '10', '0'.
I want to store these data inot another variable however not getting it.

Can you please tell me how do I fetch the data what I want from the query output or I am doing anything wrong?

Thanks you very much. I solved my problem.

How do I get the native data type like we get in ORACLE using

OCIAttrGet(colHandle, OCI_DTYPE_PARAM, (dvoid *) &dataType, 0,
OCI_ATTR_DATA_TYPE, m_errorHandle);

It will return &datatype value for:
VARCHAR2 - 1
NUMBER - 2
Date - 12

How do we achieve this in MYSQL 5.1?
I saw in manual but not found any pointer. There is no any point described for native data types value.

I recommend that you open a new topic for every issue you are facing, because that will give people a better understanding of how to help you. If there are multiple issues in each thread, that makes it hard to understand and resolve the latest issue.

Ok. I will create new thread.