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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

List of all Tables, Views and their columns in selected SQl database

Following query gives complete list of tables and views in a SQL database.

USE [DATABASE NAME]

GO
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
 
Following is the sample query to get column names and data types for selected table:
 
SELECT
COLUMN_NAME 'COLUMN NAME',
DATA_TYPE 'DATA TYPE',
COULMN_DEFAULT 'COLUMN DEFAULT'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'TABLE NAME' 
 
 

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