Comments on: Query to get the column names/types for all tables in SQL 2005

By: Deepak Vasa

Deepak Vasa — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:15:54 +0000

Thanks Peter, I think the query missed out an = in the where clause (sys.systypes.name = ‘sysname’). For all the readers out there, please change the sysname above to limit to any data type you want to.

By: Peter Vanek

Peter Vanek — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:30:59 +0000

With this querry, you don’t need the case/when for each possilbe datatype:

SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT sys.sysobjects.name AS [TABLE], sys.syscolumns.name AS [COLUMN], sys.systypes.name AS DATATYPE,
sys.syscolumns.length AS SIZE, sys.syscolumns.colorder AS RANK, sys.syscolumns.isnullable AS NULLABLE,
sys.syscolumns.xprec AS PREC, ISNULL(sys.syscolumns.scale, 0) AS SCALE
FROM sys.sysobjects INNER JOIN
sys.syscolumns ON sys.sysobjects.id = sys.syscolumns.id INNER JOIN
sys.systypes ON sys.syscolumns.xtype = sys.systypes.xtype
WHERE (sys.sysobjects.xtype = ‘U’) AND (sys.systypes.name ‘sysname’)
ORDER BY [TABLE], sys.syscolumns.colid

By: Deepak Vasa

Deepak Vasa — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:00:04 +0000

Hi Dan,

Thanks for pointing it out. I have updated the post as suggested.

cheers

By: Dan Howard

Dan Howard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:29:40 +0000

This is not copy/pastable. The quotes are smart quotes. Can you put it in plain text?