How you force the data reader to return only schema of the data store rather than data?
shanu kumar
SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection(); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(); DataTable schemaTable; SqlDataReader myReader; //Open a connection to the SQL Server Northwind database. cn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=server;User ID=login;Password=password;Initial Catalog=Northwind"; cn.Open();//Retrieve records from the Employees table into a DataReader. cmd.Connection = cn; cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Employees"; myReader = cmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.KeyInfo);//Retrieve column schema into a DataTable. schemaTable = myReader.GetSchemaTable();//For each field in the table... foreach (DataRow myField in schemaTable.Rows){//For each property of the field...foreach (DataColumn myProperty in schemaTable.Columns) {//Display the field name and value.Console.WriteLine(myProperty.ColumnName + " = " + myField[myProperty].ToString());}Console.WriteLine();//Pause.Console.ReadLine(); }//Always close the DataReader and connection. myReader.Close(); cn.Close();