How to get the SqlType of a column in a DataTable?

Question

I have a DataTable obtained from a SQL DataBase, like this:

using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, _sqlserverDB))
{
    using (SqlDataAdapter adapter          


        

Answer 1

If you are using DataReader -

SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); reader.GetDataTypeName(int ordinal)

should work if you want the SQL data type of a column