The ODBC interface is very generic. It's designed to give you (very) basic
query and rowset retrieval capability and not much else. This is because
each DBMS has a unique way to expose its schema (catalog). You will need to
determine if the DBMS has specific commands that can be sent as a query to
extract this information. Unless you use a native provider, ADO.NET can't
help.
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