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How To Get a List of Table Columns using the "sp_columns" Stored Procedure in MS SQL Server?
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If you have an existing table, but you don't remember what are the columns defined in the table, you can use the "sp_columns" stored procedure to get a list of all columns of the specified table. The following tutorial script shows you a good example:
sp_columns tip
GO
TABLE_OWNER TABLE_NAME COLUMN_TABLE TYPE_NAME ...
dbo tip id int ...
dbo tip subject varchar ...
dbo tip description varchar ...
dbo tip create_date datetime ...
The "sp_columns" stored procedure returns a long list of properties for each column of the specified table. Take a look at each of them.
sp_columns tip
GO
TABLE_OWNER TABLE_NAME COLUMN_TABLE TYPE_NAME ...
dbo tip id int ...
dbo tip subject varchar ...
dbo tip description varchar ...
dbo tip create_date datetime ...
The "sp_columns" stored procedure returns a long list of properties for each column of the specified table. Take a look at each of them.
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