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Search a Column in database

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diyagan
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22 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-04 : 22:45:31

Hi,

Can any one say how to search a particular column in a database so that the tables containing the column are listed

dinakar
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2507 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-04 : 22:54:49

you can look into syscolumns and get the tables with that column name...

SELECT Object_name(ID) As TableName,*
FROM Syscolumns
WHERE Name = 'somecolumn'

Dinakar Nethi
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diyagan
Starting Member

22 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-04 : 23:03:06

Its working fine ..
thank you

madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-05 : 01:12:56

or

Select table_name from information_schema.columns
where column_name='your column'

Madhivanan

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