Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All The Column With Specific Data Types

By: Shaiju CK

Shaiju CK — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:49:38 +0000

SELECT REPLACE(’2012/10/10′, ‘/’, ”)

–Eg:-
SELECT REPLACE(FieldName, ‘/’, ”) FROM TableName

By: Shaiju CK

Shaiju CK — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:40:06 +0000

c and t are the aliases for sys.columns and sys.types respectively. You can see that name asighed in the last 2nd and 3rd row from the bottom.

By: Vichet

Vichet — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:26:46 +0000

Can you please explain what the single characters ‘c’, ‘t’ mean below? It’s a copy from this blog.

SELECT
OBJECT_NAME(c.OBJECT_ID) TableName
,c.name AS ColumnName
,SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id) AS SchemaName
,t.name AS TypeName
,t.is_user_defined
,t.is_assembly_type
,c.max_length
,c.PRECISION
,c.scale
FROM sys.columns AS c
JOIN sys.types AS t ON c.user_type_id=t.user_type_id
ORDER BY c.OBJECT_ID;

By: Nikash

Nikash — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:34:25 +0000

Hope this will help you .. select replace(replace(replace(convert(char(4),YEAR('2012/10/10'))+'A'+convert(char(4),MONTH('2012/10/10'))+'B'+convert(char(4),DAY('2012/10/10')),'A',''),'B',''),' ','')

By: Nikash

Nikash — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:22:47 +0000

Except manually , Can i migrate the data belonging to one schema to a different one in same db. Please tell me ASAP.

By: Sandesh

Sandesh — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:28:55 +0000

Sandesh,

It is ok Pinal, We are here to share our knowledge and grow…thank you so much for your highly useful posts always.

By: hardik

hardik — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:10:27 +0000

thanx a lot buddy

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By: alireza

alireza — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:39:34 +0000

hi i want select a date from a filde
if fdat=2012/10/10
i want 20121010
can help me !!!

By: Ashok

Ashok — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:22:48 +0000

Nice ya. Found your valuable effort here.
Thanks for this.
Ashok.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:38:39 +0000

Good One !!
Have added the NULLABLE condtion for each column!!

SELECT
OBJECT_NAME(c.OBJECT_ID) TableName
,c.name AS ColumnName
,SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id) AS SchemaName
,t.name AS TypeName
,t.is_user_defined
,t.is_assembly_type
,c.max_length
,c.PRECISION
,c.scale
,’NULLABLE’ = case when c.is_nullable=’true’ then ‘YES’ else ‘NO’ end
FROM sys.columns AS c
JOIN sys.types AS t ON c.user_type_id=t.user_type_id
ORDER BY c.OBJECT_ID;

By: Sharath

Sharath — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:24:37 +0000

Thank u very much…………..

By: Rajib Pradhan

Rajib Pradhan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:15:05 +0000

Thanks Ron,
I think your script will list all the columns with data types. I want to refine my requirement that list all the primary key columns with data type.

Rajib

By: Ron Cicotte

Ron Cicotte — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:48:45 +0000

I was actually lookiing for a way to list the columns and datatypes for User Defined Table Types. This article helped but I still had to do a lot of research before I came up with this:

and was able to do this:

SELECT s.name as ‘schema’
, tt.name as TableName
, c.name AS column_name
,c.column_id
,SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id) AS type_schema
,t.name AS type_name
,t.is_user_defined
,t.is_assembly_type
,c.max_length
,c.precision
,c.scale
,t.user_type_id
,c.object_id
FROM sys.columns AS c
JOIN sys.types AS t ON c.user_type_id=t.user_type_id
JOIN sys.table_types tt ON tt.type_table_object_id = c.object_id
JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = tt.schema_id
Order by s.name,tt.name, c.column_id

By: steve

steve — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:09:45 +0000

Why do you think INFORMATION_SCHEMA is undocumented. I do see the information on msdn http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186778(v=sql.105).aspx. Information schema views seem to be simpler solution, is there any other reason not to use the information schema?

By: Rajib Pradhan

Rajib Pradhan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:23:50 +0000

Hi Pinal,
I want a script which will find all the data types used by all the primary keys of the database. That means list all the primary keys with their data types in a database.
Will you please write a script for this.

Thanks,
Rajib

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:43:12 +0000

See if this helps
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2009/12/14/search-a-value-in-character-column-of-all-tables.aspx

By: Pramod Patil

Pramod Patil — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:45:50 +0000

i want Search text in any Column of Specify Table ,

I want that text which Column ::

How do I

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:58:20 +0000

Hi Guys,
Have any idea to alter the system data type.

Exp:
UPDATE INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS SET NUMERIC_PRECISION=18,NUMERIC_SCALE=2
WHERE DATA_TYPE = ‘decimal’

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:39:11 +0000

That format matters only if you want to show them in a front end application. Why do you want to have data in such format?

By: Raja

Raja — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:30:14 +0000

Hi Guys,

nice post, I want a result in the following format

TableName
———-

columnName datatype Length
test1 int 4

TableName
—————
columnName datatype Length
test2 int 4

By: Ludovic T-C

Ludovic T-C — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:34:33 +0000

I wanted to find out what the column data types were for the view sys.databases.

To return the column data types for this view, use Pinal’s Script 2 above, but query “sys.all_columns” instead of “sys.columns”.

To return only the columns for sys.databases, add:

WHERE object_name(c.OBJECT_ID) = ‘sysdatabases’

before the ORDER BY.

By: Sabby

Sabby — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:07:14 +0000

Hi,
In addition to this script can i add another column that states what exactly is the data length (not declared length), that means concatenating MAX( DataLength(ColumnName)) function

By: Staffan Hedström

Staffan Hedström — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:04:08 +0000

Thanks for the script, you saved me an hour!

By: swathi

swathi — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:14:37 +0000

Remisha – Thank you for the query, it’s really handy.