sql server get column names from table 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 column name sql server

SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'Customers'

Example 3: get all columns from table sql

/* To retreive the column names of table using sql */

SELECT COLUMN_NAME.
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA. COLUMNS.
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'Your Table Name'

Example 4: get table column names sql ssms

SELECT COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'Your Table Name'
ORDER BY COLUMN_NAME

-- IS_NULLABLE returns yes or no depending on null or not null

Example 5: How to View column names of a table in SQL

DESCRIBE Table_Name;

OR 

DESC Table_Name;

Example 6: Returns all column names as a list

# Returns all column names as a list

df.columns
#['age', 'name']

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