>>>>Viv,
>>>>
>>>>After I switched to List and Linq, the performance is 10 times slower than it was :( The procedure used to execute in ~800 ms. Now it executes in 8000 ms.
>>>
>>>As John says, must be something else going on. Linq should be faster then a coded iteration....
>>
>>Right, I bet the problem is here with the CAST (that's what I was getting yesterday night)
>>
>>

>> columns = (from DataRow r in reader.GetSchemaTable().AsEnumerable()
>>                                                  select new ColumnSchema
>>                                                      {
>>                                                          ColumnName = (String) r["ColumnName"],
>>                                                          ColumnSize = (Int32) r["ColumnSize"],
>>                                                          DbType = (SqlDbType) r["ProviderType"],
>>                                                          DataType = reader.GetFieldType((int)r["ColumnOrdinal"]),
>>                                                          Precision = (Int16) r["NumericPrecision"],
>>                                                          Scale = (Int16) r["NumericScale"],
>>                                                          IsIdentity = (Boolean) r["IsIdentity"]
>>                                                      }).ToList();

>>
>>I am going to debug it in a few minutes and see what needs to be adjusted.
>
>Why are you using reader.GetFieldType((int)r["ColumnOrdinal"]) rather than (Type) r["DataType"] ?

Did you see yesterday's post from Bill F message #1579381? There is no DataType property in TableSchema in .NET 4.5 according to documentation. I'm using .NET 4.0 right now, so I haven't verified.