Re: What is similar in mssql to $dbh->listfields($tbl) in mysql

[gellyfish]

in reply to What is similar in mssql to $dbh->listfields($tbl) in mysql

You can use the following query to get the columns in a table from MS SQL Server:

select syscolumns.name from syscolumns
join sysobjects on sysobjects.id = syscolumns.id
where sysobjects.name = ?

(you supply the table name as the argument to execute to provide the data for the placeholder.

Alternatively you can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA view which basically does the same thing:

select COLUMN_NAME from information_schema.columns
where table_name = ?

/J\

[VSarkiss]

As a third alternative, you can also short-circuit the first query:

select name from syscolumns where id = object_id(?)

The parameter is the string name of the object, as in the longer query. Also, note that the object_id function has some shortcomings, but for the majority of situations the above will work just fine.