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Searching for a database field in the SQL Server Database

  • March 28, 2013 at 11:09 am

    #270479

    I am new to SQL Server and working on a new Data Base. I need to search the SQL Server database and list all Table names that have a Field I am looking for.

    In Oracle I would do

    SELECT column_name, Table_name FROM all_tab_columns

    WHERE column_name = 'POS_TRANSACTION' ----Name_Of_Field from tables that I'm looking for

    This will list all tables that have the field name.

    How do I do this in SQL Server?

    Thanks, Jim

  • March 28, 2013 at 11:15 am

    #1601763

    SQL is very similar, and there's two ways:

    select TABLE_NAME,COLUMN_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where COLUMN_NAME='POS_TRANSACTION'

    --or

    select OBJECT_NAME(object_id) As TableName, name As ColumnName from sys.columns where name ='POS_TRANSACTION'

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  • March 28, 2013 at 11:28 am

    #1601766

    It works great. Thank you for the quick reply.

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