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

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.

By: giri

giri — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:15:58 +0000

what is the datatype for email in sql 2005???

By: Tushar

Tushar — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:24:27 +0000

I have a question,

In oracle, I can define variable’s datatype using another table’s column datatype in procedure or function.. (see the example) can you help me find it out similar things in sql server 2005? Thanks in an advance.

Example:

eno in emp.empno%type,
name out emp.ename%type,
job out emp.job%type,
salary out emp.sal%type,
location out dept.loc%type

create or replace procedure display (
eno in emp.empno%type,
name out emp.ename%type,
job out emp.job%type,
salary out emp.sal%type,
location out dept.loc%type
)
is
begin
select ename,job,sal,loc into name,job,salary,location from emp e,dept d
where e.deptno=d.deptno AND empno=eno;
end;

By: Adi

Adi — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:58:21 +0000

How to get the x and y value as the length value entered in nVarChar(x) and numeric(x,y). Thanks

By: Joaquim Félix

Joaquim Félix — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:47:29 +0000

@Madhivanan

Madhivanan sorry for the late reply.
My first idea was, similarly to this post, to determine the User Stored Procedures (USP) and User Defined Functions (UDF) that had a specific data type in it’s parameters.
However, after reading your post, the same idea applied to the variables used inside the code would also be nice, since the main purpose is to replace old or deprecated data types with new or enhanced ones.
Regards.

By: sekhar

sekhar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:12:25 +0000

how can i get the exact size of the column along with column name and datatype

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:49:38 +0000

Joaquim Félix,

Do you want to know the parameters or the scripts?

By: Joaquim Félix

Joaquim Félix — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:40 +0000

Very handy script. This one goes strait to my favourites list.
Is it possible to apply the same concept to User Stored Procedures and User Defined Functions?
That would also be very nice.

By: Remisha

Remisha — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:46:56 +0000

SELECT SysObjects.[Name] as TableName,
SysColumns.[Name] as ColumnName,
SysTypes.[Name] As DataType,
SysColumns.[Length] As Length
FROM
SysObjects INNER JOIN SysColumns
ON SysObjects.[Id] = SysColumns.[Id]
INNER JOIN SysTypes
ON SysTypes.[xtype] = SysColumns.[xtype]
WHERE SysObjects.[type] = ‘U’
ORDER BY SysObjects.[Name]

By: Sreedhar

Sreedhar — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:13:27 +0000

need some help in Sqlserver.
I need a script file to change table column datatype from int to bigint when the two tables are associated with foreign key , I try to disable the foreign key in the child table and they try to alter but it did not work

By: SWAPNA

SWAPNA — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:49:56 +0000

HELLO

Is there any procedure that can alter all my columns in the database from int to nvarchar and float to nvarchar
Thanks in advance

By: vineet

vineet — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:19:52 +0000

Hi All

i have a column which is a computed column (when click on Table+ look in column DataType) It showes me Computed. I have no of such columns in my database.
With a SQL statement how do i get list of such columns.

Thanks

By: Naren Sangu

Naren Sangu — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:32:25 +0000

Hello Sir,
I need some help.
Is there any procedure that can alter my columns in the database from chanr to nchar,varchar to nvarchar and text to ntext
Thanks in advance

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:49:38 +0000

Hmmm, information_schema.columns displays the view columns.

By: Puneet

Puneet — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:12:00 +0000

Need to know the best practices for testing Database schema.

By: Puneet

Puneet — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:10:47 +0000

hi, could u please let me know that how can we find the duplicate columns in aprox 30 tables of same schema. based on name.

By: rem

rem — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:26:55 +0000

The problem I am having with this wonderful script is it does not go down to View level ie it does not list views – is there a fix to that ?

Thanks