Listing table names and columns in a database

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Listing table names and columns in a database

ramadesai108

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December 19, 2008 at 11:48 am

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Hi All,
How do I get a list of all the table names and their column names from a database?
Thanks.

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Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 1

Use Books On Line (BOL) entriy for System Views:

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/13bccc2f-ed3c-4b58-abd0-ca8bf34a66b8.htm

This in turn will allow you to view what is contained in sys.tables and sys.objects

And finally read about sys.all_columns at:

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/40e04fe9-0b64-4799-84c0-57f128b2bdc2.htm

After all that, if you have further questions repost.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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David Benoit SSC-Dedicated Points: 34562 More actions · Answer 2

Try looking at the syscolumns table and the function object_name() to get all the information you want out. The id column in that table is what you are going to put in the function. Like object_name(id).

If you have problems with some of that post the query and you will get some help.

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MANU-J. SSC-Dedicated Points: 31126 More actions · Answer 3

select st.name,sc.name from

sys.all_columns sc join sys.tables st

on st.object_id=sc.object_id

order by st.name

HTH!

MJ

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 4

Actually this is extremely easy:

Select * From Information_Schema.Columns

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Paresh Prajapati SSCertifiable Points: 7567 More actions · Answer 5

select table_name, column_name

from information_schema.columns

order by table_name

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NitinPatel31 Hall of Fame Points: 3721 More actions · Answer 6

If you wish to have lists in HTML format you can use my script

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/SQL_DB_DOCUMENTATION.aspx

This script generates HTML report of the database objects. You can edit this script to get the table and column list only

Best Regards

Nitin

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damonj Valued Member Points: 59 More actions · Answer 7

MANU (12/20/2008)
select st.name,sc.name from
sys.all_columns sc join sys.tables st
on st.object_id=sc.object_id
order by st.name
HTH!
MJ

Thanks MJ!

That helped me out, although I'm not the OP.

DJ

Robert Bedick Old Hand Points: 310 More actions · Answer 8

If you want the list of database table names and columns because you want to document your database, you might want to consider using SchemaToDoc (http://www.schematodoc.com)