Comments on: MsSql lacks describe statement

By: Kristof Neirynck

Kristof Neirynck — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:49:06 +0000

@acn: You probably mean

exec sp_columns tablename

or even better

exec sp_columns tablename, @column_name = 'foo'

This indeed works.

acn — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:13:29 +0000

sp_columns tablename

is equivalent command for DESC from Oracle.

MS-sql doesnot lack desc

Renith Ravindran — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:17:13 +0000

Nice one… Still we can modify this to short as follows…

select column_name,data_type from information_schema.columns where table_name = ‘your table name’;

Ramesh Marikhu — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:14:57 +0000

Nice one. Did not know MSSQL lacked DESCRIBE capability. Thanks.

Boštjan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:27:24 +0000

Nice solution! Thanks

HumanisticJones — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:36:56 +0000

Thanks for posting this. You just saved me hours of banging my head against a pesky MSSQL db.

S Halayka — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:19:21 +0000

Thank you, this is great.

Duane Zamrok — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:52:35 +0000

Thank you very much. It’s is very refreshing to find a result that is upfront and straight to the point for once.

-Duane