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vineet99
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Posted - 09/12/2012 :  00:05:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

I am fairly new to SQL and am trying to create a stored procedure which dynamically generates a data dictionary for any database. Currently I have a stored procedure which given tablename and schema name as parameters generates the dictionary for that database. But I want to give the database name as parameter so that the dictionary is generated for any database. Is it even possible to do this? Please let me know.

visakh16
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Posted - 09/12/2012 :  00:09:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
its possible. you just need to reference dbname in table name and use dynamic sql

ie as 


EXEC('select * FROM ' + @dbname + '.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES')


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jezemine
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Posted - 09/16/2012 :  00:00:01  Show Profile  Visit jezemine's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I wrote a shareware app that does this, see the link in my sig. works for many other DBMS besides MSSQL.

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