'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Overrides Function GetSchema( _
   ByVal collectionName As String _
) As DataTable

public override DataTable GetSchema( 
   string collectionName
)

Parameters

collectionName

Name of the collection to get information about.

Return Value

GetSchema with 1 argument returns general information about the collection queried. For example, GetSchema("Users") returns list of the users on the server. To get the list of collections, call the GetSchema method without parameters, or with single parameter "MetaDataCollections" (which is actually the same). The table object returned by the method will contain three columns. The first field of every row is a keyword allowed to pass to the method (as collectionName argument). The second field is number of restriction values for this keywords (passed through restrictionValues argument).

Refer to "Retrieving Metadata" article for detailed information.

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

DbConnectionBase Class
DbConnectionBase Members
Overload List