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Re: Getting the type of a field

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From: Vladimir Afanasyev
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 07:39
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"Yassin" <urmail@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Hi,
>If I know the database name I can get the table names by calling GetTableNames. If I know the table name I can know the name of the fields by calling GetFieldNames(tableName, fields). My question is: how can I know the type (int, date, text,...) of a field if I know the name of the fiels and/or the name of the table?
>

Another idea (ADO -> Recordset -> Fields -> Field -> Type) 
is using Fields Collection.
Fields consists from set of Field that can be enumerated.
Field has a property Type (just type of data).
Sample for mdb-files:
http://codecentral.borland.com/codecentral/ccweb.exe/listing?id=19860

Vladimir.
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