Here is the incentive for the SQL Server users (this new year), you may be aware then using SP_HELPINDEX or SP_HELP could give some part of information on the indexes and database objects. But to know more about depedant columns you need to query INFORMATION_SCHEMA views or sys.index_columns. Kalen Delaney...
USE <database_name>; GO SELECT s.name AS statistics_name ,c.name AS column_name ,sc.stats_column_id FROM sys.stats AS s INNER JOIN sys.stats_columns AS sc ON s.object_id = sc.object_id AND s.stats_id = sc.stats_id INNER JOIN sys.columns AS c ON sc.object_id = c.object_id AND c.column_id = sc.column_id...