get column sql code example
Example 1: get table columns from sql
SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'Customers'
-- INFORMATION_SCHEMA is an ANSI-standard (American National Standard Institute) set of read-only views which provide information about all of the tables, views, columns, and procedures in a database
-- "N" defines the subsequent string (the string after the N) as being in unicode
Example 2: get all columns from table sql
SELECT
TABLE_NAME
FROM
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
Example 3: return columns from table sql
SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS -- INFORMATION_SCHEMA is an ANSI-standard (American National Standard Institute) set of read-only views which provide information about all of the tables, views, columns, and procedures in a database
WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'Customers' -- "N" defines the subsequent string (the string after the N) as being in unicode