TDAMetaData Class

A class for retrieving metainformation of the specified database objects in the form of dataset.

For a list of all members of this type, see TDAMetaData members.

Unit

Syntax

TDAMetaData = class(TMemDataSet);

Remarks

TDAMetaData is a TDataSet descendant standing for retrieving metainformation of the specified database objects in the form of dataset. First of all you need to specify which kind of metainformation you want to see. For this you need to assign the TDAMetaData.MetaDataKind property. Provide one or more conditions in the TDAMetaData.Restrictions property to diminish the size of the resultset and get only information you are interested in.

Use the TDAMetaData.GetMetaDataKinds method to get the full list of supported kinds of meta data. With the TDAMetaData.GetRestrictions method you can find out what restrictions are applicable to the specified MetaDataKind.

Example

The code below demonstrates how to get information about columns of the 'emp' table:

MetaData.Connection := Connection;
MetaData.MetaDataKind := 'Columns';
MetaData.Restrictions.Values['TABLE_NAME'] := 'Emp';
MetaData.Open;

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