How can I get column names from a table in SQL Server?

Thursday 24 May 2018

I would like to query the name of all columns of a table. I found how to do this in:

But I need to know: how can this be done in Microsoft SQL Server (2008 in my case)?

Answer

You can obtain this information and much, much more by querying the Information Schema views.

This sample query:

SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'Customers'

Can be made over all these DB objects:

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