[Chicago] How to get table names from ODBC?
Martin Maney
maney at two14.net
Sat Aug 4 08:51:16 CEST 2007
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:50:18AM -0500, Tim Ottinger wrote:
> Isn't that database-dependent and not connection-mode dependent?
> Every database has system tables, and they don't have standardize name and
> schema across database vendors.
> If there is a general way, i do not know it.
Actually, the SQL standard does have some well-specified stuff in the
information_schema. And some relational databases even support enough
of it to be useful! Amazing, ain't it?
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