[DB-SIG] table metadata available?

Patrick K. O'Brien pobrien@orbtech.com
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:23:56 -0500


[Danny Yoo]
>
> I hope I'm not bothering too much!  I'm starting to work on some tools
> that try to probe databases a bit dynamically.  Is there an API to pull
> the table definitions?  In particular, it'd be nice to be able to discover
> the primary keys of each table.  I can't see a way of doing this reliably
> with just the DB 2.0 API, but perhaps I'm just missing something obvious.

Hey, Danny. You should ask Andy Todd. I know he's done some things along
these lines. I've copied this message to him. Andy? Got any advice?

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech