Comments on: SQL SERVER – List All the Tables for All Databases Using System Tables

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:51:41 +0000

How can I find stored procedures that have never been executed. Not only in the time the log persists in memory? Any idea?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:54:02 +0000

Create a table with same strcuture of what sp_msforeachdb returns. Then use this statement

insert into #t(column_list)
EXEC sp_msforeachdb ‘select “?” AS db, * from [?].sys.tables’

By: tboonleong@yahoo.com

tboonleong@yahoo.com — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:45:09 +0000

this is great tips. => sp_msforeachdb ‘select “?” AS db, * from [?].sys.tables’

But How to capture those output and use it into query statement ?becasue i need information for all those database names and all table names to export those data to text files using BPC.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:39:12 +0000

Colin, if it's still interesting for you : exec sp_MSforeachtable 'if COLUMNPROPERTY(object_id(''?''),''XXXXX'',''ColumnID'') is not null select ''?'' [Table],* from ?' Replace XXXXX with your column name.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:56:33 +0000

How do I use the output of the above command as input into another query. For instance, I want to get all the tables with a specific column name then use that result to further query each table to get the data for that column. Something like (DB2 syntax):

select * from (select tabname from syscat.columns where colname = ‘my_column_name’);

Of course that only gives me the table names, and not what I want…

By: janarthanan

janarthanan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:49:35 +0000

how this query was used in production enviourment
when it was used?
what purpose itz used?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:41:13 +0000

select * from information_schema.tables

By: anjay

anjay — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:45:28 +0000

How can i search all the tables in a particular database.

By: hafiz Saleh

hafiz Saleh — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:45:51 +0000

How i can find which table has Created from which User when a Data base is used by Different Login.plz guide me.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:02:31 +0000

How can i search all procedures within a database for a specific table name?

By: Shashank

Shashank — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:37:52 +0000

How to write a script to truncate tables using sp_msForEachDB. Please help.
I am using:

DECLARE @Table1 NVARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @Table2 NVARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @Table3 NVARCHAR(100)

SET @Table1=’fwkErrorLog’
SET @Table2=’fwkUserAuthenticationLog’
SET @Table3=’fwkUserAuthenticationLogArchive’
DECLARE @dbname NVARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @sqlStatement NVARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @singlequote char(4)
SET @singlequote=””

SET @sqlStatement= ‘USE ?; IF EXISTS (SELECT ”x” FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = ‘ +
+ @singlequote+@Table1+@singlequote
+’) TRUNCATE table ‘+@Table1

EXEC sp_msForEachDB @sqlStatement

SET @sqlStatement= ‘USE ?; IF EXISTS (SELECT ”x” FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = ‘ +
+ @singlequote+@Table2+@singlequote
+’) TRUNCATE table ‘+@Table2
EXEC sp_msForEachDB @sqlStatement

SET @sqlStatement= ‘USE ?; IF EXISTS (SELECT ”x” FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = ‘ +
+@singlequote+@Table3+@singlequote
+’) TRUNCATE table ‘+@Table3
EXEC sp_msForEachDB @sqlStatement

Can it be much better

By: chaitanya

chaitanya — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:20:59 +0000

thnx a ton…

By: Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:51:35 +0000

Hello Chaitanya,

Statistics is stored in statblob column in sys.indexes table.

Regards,
Pinal dave

By: chaitanya

chaitanya — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:13:18 +0000

in which table query statistics are stored?

By: chaitanya

chaitanya — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:12:07 +0000

where the statistics of query i.e cost ,time of exe. etc are stored??(in which table?)

By: Tejas Shah

Tejas Shah — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:51:11 +0000

Hi Jyotsna,

You will get all Table’s columns by this query:

select t.name As TableName, c.Column_Name
from sys.tables t
INNER JOIN information_schema.columns c ON c.Table_Name = t.Name
ORDER BY t.name

Thanks,

Tejas
SQLYoga.com

By: Jyotsna

Jyotsna — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:02 +0000

Hi,
Im new to SQL server, i was wondering if there was anyway, we could list all tables for a single database along with the column names.
Im finding this really hard so any help would be appreciated

By: HING

HING — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:31:37 +0000

Thank you ,

Sometimes a database may contain the name space

sp_msforeachdb ‘select “?” AS db, * from [?].sys.tables’

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:02:51 +0000

Thank you Jacob Sir!

By: Zubaria

Zubaria — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:11:13 +0000

Is there a way to use this query for auditing DMl events

By: Jacob Sebastian

Jacob Sebastian — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:32:31 +0000

And some times it is important to know which database is being processed and the following might be helpful.

sp_msforeachdb ‘select ”?” AS db, * from ?.sys.tables’

By: Jacob Sebastian

Jacob Sebastian — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:31:08 +0000

Nice post Pinal!

You can avoid the “USE” statement by using three part object name. For example:

sp_msforeachdb ‘select * from ?.sys.tables’

By: James

James — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:38:02 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Shouldn’t we be using the information schema views in Sql 2005 and onwards?

sp_msforeachdb @command1=’USE ?;SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables’

By: MarlonRibunal

MarlonRibunal — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:18:51 +0000

LOL!

It took me half of a dozen lines to come up with what your one liner achieved!

Good one!

-Marlon Ribunal