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sinapra
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Posted - 11/20/2006 :  09:16:36  Show Profile  Send sinapra an AOL message  Send sinapra a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Hello everyone

Can anyone help me by telling me whats the query that returns the column names, datatype, length and other properties without table data.

Thanks in Advance
Nagu

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harsh_athalye
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Posted - 11/20/2006 :  09:22:54  Show Profile  Visit harsh_athalye's Homepage  Click to see harsh_athalye's MSN Messenger address  Send harsh_athalye a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote 
sp_help 'tablename'


where tablename is the name of the table you want information for.

or

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'tablename'


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sinapra
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Posted - 11/20/2006 :  09:32:49  Show Profile  Send sinapra an AOL message  Send sinapra a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Thanks a lot Harsh, that really helps, but that didnot return the length of the datatype except Char type.

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Have you checked the sp_help procedure?

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Posted - 11/20/2006 :  09:48:38  Show Profile  Send sinapra an AOL message  Send sinapra a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Harsh, I just did and got that as well, thanks again, but one more small one before I give a final touch

I tried this in Query Analyzer and extracted the info in CSV, but how to get it done in Enterprise manager, I mean running query is fine, but can it be saved thru enterprise manager.

Thanks again in advance
Prasad

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I don't think so.

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