DB2®Connection.GetSchema (String, String[]) Method

Syntax

[Visual Basic]
Public Overrides Function GetSchema ( _
   collectionName As String, _
   restrictionValues As String() _
) As DataTable
[C#]
public override DataTable GetSchema (
   string collectionName,
   string[] restrictionValues
);
[C++]
public:
virtual DataTable^ GetSchema (
   String collectionName,
   array<String^>^ restrictionValues
) override
[JScript]
public override function GetSchema (
   collectionName : String,
   restrictionValues : String[]
) : DataTable

Parameters

collectionName

Specifies the set of data source metadata to return. The following table lists read-only string properties you can use to identify the metadata collection GetSchema will return.

Collection name	Description
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.MetaDataCollections	A list of the metadata collections supported by the IBM® Data Provider for .NET.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Restrictions	For each metadata collection, a list of qualifiers that can be used to restrict the scope of the requested metadata.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.DataSourceInformation	Information about the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.DataTypes	A list of all the data types supported by Db2® family databases.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.ReservedWords	A list of all the reserved words for the Db2 family SQL dialect.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Tables	A list of the tables in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.TablePrivileges	A list of the table privileges in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Columns	A list of the table columns in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.ColumnPrivileges	A list of the column privileges in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Procedures	A list of the stored procedures in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.ProcedureParameters	A list of the stored procedure parameters in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.PrimaryKeys	A list of the table primary keys in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.ForeignKeys	A list of the table foreign keys in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Indexes	A list of the indexes in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.
DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Schemas	A list of the schemas in the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance.

restrictionValues

You can refine the set of metadata returned by the GetSchema method by assigning values for the restrictions specific to the applicable metadata collection. Pass these restrictions values into the GetSchema method as a String array. To see the list of restrictions for each metadata collection, read the DataTable generated by the following code:

DataTable resttable = 
conn.GetSchema(DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Restrictions);

Return value

A DataTable instance, which contains information about the visible Db2 family databases.

Example

[C#] The following line of code demonstrates how to retrieve the available metadata for the data source associated with this DB2Connection instance. The use of this particular overload of GetSchema (with a String and a String array parameters) results in the retrieval of a list of the tables in the data source associated with the ERIK schema.

[C#]
DataTable eriktab = conn.GetSchema(DB2MetaDataCollectionNames.Tables,
                                   new string[4] { null, "ERIK", null, null } );