Showing posts with label sysobjects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sysobjects. Show all posts

Saturday, September 5, 2020

Find a specific column from the database objects

There are many ways to find out a specific column from the database objects like Tables and stored procedures.

1) Red Gate's SQL Search:

This tool will be integrated into SQL Server Management Studio once installed. This will help in searching across multiple object types and multiple databases.


2) Using a query:
The following query will find the tables and stored procedures that contain a certain field.  

SELECT sysobjects.name FROM syscolumns
LEFT JOIN sysobjects ON sysobjects.id = syscolumns.id
WHERE syscolumns.name like '%EmployeeID%'
ORDER BY 1

3) Using a query:
The following query will find the tables (only) that contain a certain field

SELECT * FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE
column_name LIKE '%EmployeeID%'



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