Get specified column data type and column name from OleDbSchemaTable

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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;

public class DatabaseInfo {    
 public static void Main () { 
   String connect = "Provider=Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0;data source=.Employee.mdb";
   OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(connect);
   con.Open();  
   Console.WriteLine("Made the connection to the database");

   Console.WriteLine("Information for each table contains:");
   DataTable tables = con.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables,new object[]{null,null,null,"TABLE"});

   DataTable cols = con.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Columns,
         new object[]{null,null,"Employee",null});

   Console.WriteLine("The columns in the Customer table are:");
 
   foreach(DataRow row in cols.Rows) 
     Console.WriteLine("  {0}	{1}", row[3],(OleDbType)row[11]);

   con.Close();
 }
}