Common Queries

List Schema

SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA ,
TABLE_NAME ,
COLUMN_NAME ,
ORDINAL_POSITION ,
COLUMN_DEFAULT ,
DATA_TYPE ,
CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH ,
NUMERIC_PRECISION ,
NUMERIC_PRECISION_RADIX ,
NUMERIC_SCALE ,
DATETIME_PRECISION
FROM   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS;

SELECT T.name AS Table_Name ,
C.name AS Column_Name ,
P.name AS Data_Type ,
P.max_length AS Size ,
CAST(P.precision AS VARCHAR) + ‘/’ + CAST(P.scale AS VARCHAR) AS Precision_Scale
FROM   sys.objects AS T
JOIN sys.columns AS C ON T.object_id = C.object_id
JOIN sys.types AS P ON C.system_type_id = P.system_type_id
WHERE  T.type_desc = ‘USER_TABLE’;