Schema Collections

The Schema collections return metadata for the Advanced SQL Engine objects. The notable metadata columns for the Xml data type are:

Column Name	Description
COLUMN_TYPE or DATA_TYPE	Set to XML.
FORMAT	Format assigned to the SQL Engine object.
PROVIDERDBTYPE	It is set to TdType.Xml.

Schema Table

The TdDataReader.GetSchemaTable returns result set metadata. The notable metadata columns for the Xml data type are:

Column Name	Description
DataType	System.Type object for the System.String type.
ProviderType	Set to TdType.Xml.
Format	Format assigned to the SQL Engine object.
ProviderSpecificDataType	System.Type object for the TdXml structure.