This won't help. Your tables will be named as they are: Table, Table1 etc.
"Jim" <ssss> wrote in message news:ePnrAiuPDHA.3016@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> cheers for that but not what I wanted to do, I want to modify the stored
> procedure....
>
> "Manish Jain" <manish04@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:#Z0n8NuPDHA.1608@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/htm
> > l/cpconsettingupdatatabledatacolumnmappings.asp
> > Multiple Result Sets
> > If your SelectCommand returns multiple tables, Fill will automatically
> > generate table names with incremental values for the tables in the
> DataSet,
> > starting with the specified table name and continuing on in the form
> > TableNameN, starting with "TableName1". You can use table mappings to
map
> > the automatically generated table name to a name you want specified for
> the
> > table in the DataSet. For example, for a SelectCommand that returns two
> > tables, Customers and Orders, issue the following call to Fill.
> >
> > custDA.Fill(custDS, "Customers")Two tables are created in the DataSet:
> > Customers and Customers1. You can use table mappings to ensure that the
> > second table is named Orders instead of Customers1. To do this, map the
> > source table of Customers1 to the DataSet table Orders, as shown in the
> > following example.
> >
> > custDA.TableMappings.Add("Customers1", "Orders")
> > custDA.Fill(custDS, "Customers")Hope this helps.
> >
> > Manish
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > "Jim" <ssss> wrote in message
> news:eZ3nDHuPDHA.3236@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > I have a stored procedure that queries a sql server database and
returns
> > the
> > > multiple data tables ( 7 to be precise) these tables are the results
of
> > many
> > > joins.
> > > When I use the System.Data.SqlClient namespace objects to access this
> > data
> > > it is returned intoa dataset, this dataset has the tables as expected
> but
> > > they are name 'Table', 'Table1' , 'Table2' etc....
> > >
> > > How can I ge the table name to be more friendly as in "Customers",
> "Rates"
> > > etc, I was thinking of modifying the sql stored procedure, can anyone
> > help?
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>