Hello,
Please refer to the following articles:
"HOW TO: Retrieve Schema Information by Using GetOleDbSchemaTable and Visual C# .NET"
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=309681
"HOW TO: Retrieve Column Schema by Using the DataReader GetSchemaTable Method and Visual C# .NET"
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310107
HTH.
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Yanhong Huang
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!I'm working primarily in ASP and transitioning to
!ASP.NET. This is probably entered to the wrong group but
!I'm not sure of what precise database technology I'm
!referencing.
!
!I have written a decent little "codewriter" utility that
!writes web admin forms, stored procedure code, and the
!functions (in ASP) that calls the sprocs that interface
!with the database.
!
!The widget works by simple lookups of information that
!I've entered to a database table - a very lame approach.
!Much better would be to interrogate the live database
!directly so as to return a recordset of field names and
!datatypes for a given table.
!
!Can someone advise me of the best/easiest way to make
!this happen?
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