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select primary key column

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adityav22
Starting Member

1 Post

Posted - 2007-02-22 : 15:07:03

Is there a query that can return teh name of the primary key column of a table ?

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-22 : 15:23:36

SELECT COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS tc
INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE ccu
ON tc.CONSTRAINT_NAME = ccu.CONSTRAINT_NAME
WHERE tc.TABLE_NAME = 'TableNameGoesHere' AND tc.CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY'

Tara Kizer

Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-22 : 17:36:15

[code]exec sp_helpindex MyTableName[/code]

CODO ERGO SUM

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