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Ways to make best use of INFORMATION_SCHEMA Views - Stored procedures & Functions?

Published 15 October 7 7:59 AM | SSQA.net

How many of you took help from using INFORMATION_SCHEMA views in SQL Server? Have you ever wondered in returning the informaiton of a Stored procedure or function, you may be thinking using SP_HELPTEXT would get you. Parts of the solution is yes with...

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Getting table name from column name

Published 15 September 7 7:23 AM | SSQA.net

If you know the name of one column you want to find from which table that is originated, to retrieve the table name you can use following TSQL: SELECT CASE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS AS c2 WHERE c2.TABLE_NAME = c1.TABLE_NAME AND...

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