Trouble with DbConnection.GetSchema()

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Trouble with DbConnection.GetSchema()

Postby Sneil » Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:11:14 GMT

Hello,

I trying to get some schema info with help of string of code:
_conn.GetSchema("Tables", sa)
where _conn is type of DbConnection. So - sa must be string[] type. If
I define sa like this:
            string[] sa = new string[3];
            sa[0] = "master";
            sa[1] = null;
            sa[2] = "users";
all fine, I get row "master		dbo		users		BASE TABLE". This was SYSTEM
database. Now want the same but for my own MSSQL database with name
"TestBase". Such database definitely exist on the same server and
definitely has table "MyTbl2". So I re-define sa:
            string[] sa = new string[3];
            sa[0] = "TestBase";
            sa[1] = null;
            sa[2] = "MyTbl2";
and get... nothing. Just empty DataTable? :( What's wrong?

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> Thanks for that, thats given me an idea, i could use reflection too.>
> >
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