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ahmeds08
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

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Posted - 02/05/2013 :  12:59:21  Show Profile  Send ahmeds08 a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Dear Experts,
Below query lists out all the tables and their respective column names as field list.
how can i achieve the same output without using cursor,loops and temp objects.

declare @ColName sysname,
@TableName sysname,
@FieldList varchar(MAX),
@LastTableName sysname

select @LastTableName = '',

@FieldList = ''

declare @tb table (TableName sysname null, FieldList varchar(MAX) null)
declare curs cursor for

select c.name, object_name(c.object_id)

from sys.columns c INNER JOIN sys.objects o on c.object_id = o.object_id

where o.type = 'U'

order by o.object_id

open curs

fetch curs into @ColName, @TableName

set @LastTableName = @TableName

while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0

BEGIN
if @LastTableName<> @TableName

BEGIN

insert into @tb values (@LastTableName,@FieldList)

set @FieldList = ''
set @LastTableName = @TableName

END



set @FieldList = case when @FieldList = '' then @ColName else + @FieldList + ',' + @ColName end



fetch curs into @ColName, @TableName

END

deallocate curs

insert into @tb values (@LastTableName,@FieldList)

select * from @tb

Thanks,
Javeed

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
47189 Posts
Posted - 02/05/2013 :  13:11:43  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
looks like this to me

SELECT t.TABLE_NAME,
STUFF((SELECT ',' + COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME FOR XML PATH('')),1,1,'')
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t
WHERE t.TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE'


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ahmeds08
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

India
430 Posts
Posted - 02/05/2013 :  13:25:01  Show Profile  Send ahmeds08 a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Visakh,
Thanks a lot.


quote:
Originally posted by visakh16

looks like this to me

SELECT t.TABLE_NAME,
STUFF((SELECT ',' + COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME FOR XML PATH('')),1,1,'')
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t
WHERE t.TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE'


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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

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Posted - 02/06/2013 :  00:56:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
welcome

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