5 Getting Schema Information : Columns Returned by the GetSchemaTable Method

Columns Returned by the GetSchemaTable Method
While a DataReader is open, you can retrieve schema information from the result set. For each data provider, the result set produced for PrefixDataReader.GetSchemaTable() returns the columns described in Table 5-1, in the order shown.
 
For the DB2 data provider, if Xml Describe Type is set to Binary, this should be a System.Byte[]. Otherwise, this should be System.String. Refer to the DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET User’s Guide for information about setting connection string options.