LinkedServer.EnumTables Method (String)

Enumerates a list of tables that are available on the linked server for a specified table name.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function EnumTables ( _
    tableName As String _
) As DataTable
'Usage
Dim instance As LinkedServer 
Dim tableName As String 
Dim returnValue As DataTable 

returnValue = instance.EnumTables(tableName)

public DataTable EnumTables(
    string tableName
)

public:
DataTable^ EnumTables(
    String^ tableName
)

member EnumTables : 
        tableName:string -> DataTable

public function EnumTables(
    tableName : String
) : DataTable

Parameters

• tableName
  Type: System.String
  A String value that specifies the name of the table.

Return Value

Type: System.Data.DataTable
A DataTable object value that contains a list of tables that can be accessed on the linked server. The table describes the different columns of the returned DataTable.

Column	Data type	Description
TABLE_CAT	String	The table qualifier name. Various DBMS products support three-part naming for tables (qualifier.owner.name). In SQL Server, this column represents the database name. In some other products, it represents the server name of the database environment of the table. This field can be NULL.
TABLE_SCHEM	String	The owner of the table in the linked server. In SQL Server, this column represents the name of the database user who created the table. This field always returns a value.
TABLE_NAME	String	The name of the table in the linked server. This field always returns a value.
TABLE_TYPE	String	The type of table; table, system table, or view.
REMARKS	String	SQL Server does not return a value for this column.

Examples

Using Linked Servers in SMO

See Also

Reference

LinkedServer Class

EnumTables Overload

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

Linked Servers (Database Engine)

sp_addlinkedserver (Transact-SQL)

sp_tables_ex (Transact-SQL)