You can retrieve information on indexes, such as the primary keys, by querying the Indexes collection.

Retrieving Primary Key Information

To retrieve this schema collection, call the GetSchema method of the FHIRConnection class. You can restrict the results by table name. The following example retrieves the primary key of the FHIR table Patient.

C#

String connectionString = "URL=http://test.fhir.org/r4b/;ConnectionType=Generic;ContentType=JSON;AuthScheme=None;";

using (FHIRConnection conn = new FHIRConnection(connectionString)) {
  conn.Open();
  DataTable databaseSchema = conn.GetSchema("Indexes", new string[] {"Patient"});
  foreach (DataRow row in databaseSchema.Rows) {
    Console.WriteLine(row["INDEX_NAME"]);
    Console.WriteLine(row["PRIMARY"]);
  }
}

VB.NET

Dim connectionString As String = "URL=http://test.fhir.org/r4b/;ConnectionType=Generic;ContentType=JSON;AuthScheme=None;"

Using conn As New FHIRConnection(connectionString)
  conn.Open()
  Dim databaseSchema As DataTable = conn.GetSchema("Indexes",  New String() {"Patient"})
  For Each row As DataRow In databaseSchema.Rows
    Console.WriteLine(row("INDEX_NAME"))
    Console.WriteLine(row("PRIMARY"))
  Next
End Using

Columns Returned

The Indexes schema collection contains the following columns: