I recall you're using Visual Foxpro. Have you tried its SQLTABLES() and SQLCOLUMNS() functions?

Jonathan

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, W O <sistemas2000profesional@...> wrote:
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> Hello everybody
>
> Is it possible for an external program know which are the tables of a
> Database?
>
> And which are the columns of a table?
>
> In ISQL I can write:
> SHOW TABLES;
>
> SHOW TABLE MyTable;
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> And it works, but if I want to get that data from my program, what can I do?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Walter.
>
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