Select statements to get metadata - forum topic by WindwardAdmin

Hi all;
We're working on adding a driver to our AutoTag product for Teradata. To do so we need to pull down the metadata from the database. We do all this in C#. Can you please tell me how to:

• Do you support DbProviderFactory.CreateDataSourceEnumerator()?
• For a given server, get all databases.
• Get all tables & views. For each table & view get:
  • schema
  • name
  • description
  • system or user
  • columns in the table/view
• For each column get:
  • name
  • description
  • type
  • If a foreign key, the schema.table.column of the primary key.
• For each stored procedure get:
  • schema
  • name
  • description
  • system or user
  • return type
  • parameters
• For each parameter get:
  • name
  • type
  • data length
  • hasDefault
  • direction
• How to perform a select with the equivilent of "skip 100, take 50" which returns rows 101 - 150 of a given select.
• How to return the value of an auto-generated primary key when a row is added to the DB.
• What syntax does Teradata prefer for parameters in a select (Sql Server wants @param, Oracle wants :param, etc)?
• A list of all keywords in the SQL syntax.

thanks - dave