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Schema View

Here is a simple view that is useful to pull basic data dictionary information out of your DB user tables. The description field is an extended property that I like to use for built in documentation of fields. This only works with 2000, 7 had a slightly different layout for the system tables.

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2004-10-27 (first published: )

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