Stored procedure for displaying field names

Display field names from a SQL Server database with this stored procedure shared by our development expert Greg Low.

Greg Low

Published: 16 Aug 2006

Could you give me a stored procedure for displaying field names from a SQL Server database?

You can do this easily by using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. Take a look at the output from:
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
Select the appropriate columns you want in the stored procedure.

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