How can I undestand at runtime witch column is primary key in a table

Hello
I write program at CBuilder and i have that problem:
In runtime application takes a table (in deign time there are no information about the table) and i want to understand at runtime witch columns are primary keys (or part of it) and witch column(s) is foreign key?
Should i look in meta data in database ?
Please help

user10860289 wrote:
Hello
I write program at CBuilder and i have that problem:
In runtime application takes a table (in deign time there are no information about the table) and i want to understand at runtime witch columns are primary keys (or part of it) and witch column(s) is foreign key?
Should i look in meta data in database ?
Please helpI am afraid that this is not possible. There isn't anything which would reveal this detail to you at run time that which column(s) are a part of the referential constraints. This is not visible even in the description of the table(s) also using Describe command too. The only way would be to check the status of the table and its related constraints in the dictionaries, DBA_CONSTRAINTS or DBA_CONS_COLUMNS .
HTH
Aman....

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