SQL query to find Primary Key of a table?
Try this query in SQL server:
SELECT X.NAME AS INDEXNAME,
COL_NAME(IC.OBJECT_ID,IC.COLUMN_ID) AS COLUMNNAME
FROM SYS.INDEXES X
INNER JOIN SYS.INDEX_COLUMNS IC
ON X.OBJECT_ID = IC.OBJECT_ID
AND X.INDEX_ID = IC.INDEX_ID
WHERE X.IS_PRIMARY_KEY = 1
AND OBJECT_NAME(IC.OBJECT_ID)='YOUR_TABLE'
This is a duplicate question:
credit to Lukmdo for this answer:
It might be not advised but works just fine:
show index from TABLE where Key_name = 'PRIMARY' ;
The solid way is to use information_schema:
SELECT k.COLUMN_NAME
FROM information_schema.table_constraints t
LEFT JOIN information_schema.key_column_usage k
USING(constraint_name,table_schema,table_name)
WHERE t.constraint_type='PRIMARY KEY'
AND t.table_schema=DATABASE()
AND t.table_name='owalog';
For Oracle, you can look it up in the ALL_CONSTRAINTS
table:
SELECT a.COLUMN_NAME
FROM all_cons_columns a INNER JOIN all_constraints c
ON a.constraint_name = c.constraint_name
WHERE c.table_name = 'TBL'
AND c.constraint_type = 'P';
DEMO.
For SQL Server, it was already answered here, and for MySQL check @ajon's answer.
For MySQL:
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(COLUMN_NAME), TABLE_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE
WHERE
TABLE_SCHEMA = '**database name**'
AND CONSTRAINT_NAME='PRIMARY'
GROUP BY TABLE_NAME;
Warning a primary key with two columns will have them separated by a coma (,
)