DbField

An immutable class that holds the definition of the database columns. This class is hugely used internally in the library.

List of Properties

Below is the list of properties.

Name	Description
Name	The name of the column.
IsPrimary	Returns `true` if the column is primary.
IsIdentity	Returns `true` if the column is identity.
IsNullable	Returns `true` if the column is nullable.
Type	The equivalent .NET CLR type.
Size	The size of the column from the database.
Precision	The precision of the column from the database.
Scale	The scale of the column from the database.
DatabaseType	The type of the column from the database.
Provider	The database provider who created the instance.

Below is the way on how to extract the database columns using IDbHelper.

using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
    var helper = connection.GetDbHelper();
    var dbFields = helper.GetFields(connection, "[dbo].[Person]");
    // Do the stuffs for the 'dbFields' here
}

We suggest to avoid using this class in any of your development, unless very necessary.