>>Hi,
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>>I want to implement a data-driven approach of defining properties of various CursorAdapter objects in my application. So I need to store the values of the column names, types, etc. etc. in meta table(s). I am considering 3 options for meta data:
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>>1. .DBF files (even though the application work with SQL Server database)
>>2. XML files
>>3. Table(s) in SQL Server.
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>>Which one of the above you (collectively) would use? TIA.
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>If you're using SQL Server, this information is already available to use in various meta-tables (views)
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>Say, you can check Information_Schema.Columns to get information about columns and you can look into extended properties to get descriptions of the fields (if you need to get this information too).
I will look into this approach. Thank you.
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