Also sp_help tablename (SQL Server) does the same thing, though it's
probably overkill.  

Also, Dave, when you presented last month, I saw you use a nifty little
stored procedure that seemed to show a lot of info for the database you
were using.. Sp_describe or something like that.  Is that something
canned in SQL Server, or something that you wrote?

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Billy Cravens
HR Systems, Sabre
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of David L. Penton
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: get table details


In Oracle use:

  DESC tableName

In SQL Server use:

  sp_columns tableName

In Access, either Design the table or write something in VB/VBA using
ADO to get the metadata associated with the table.


David L. Penton, MCP
Consultant
"Mathematics is music for the mind, and Music is Mathematics for the
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Gregory Price


Does anyone know a good way to get the details of a table, like a list
of the table columns and their maxlengths and datatypes?  I would like
to do this based on the table's title and nothing more...

Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks
Greg Price


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