How To Display Column Descriptions?
Sep 18, 2004
Hello!
I am wracking my brain, trying to figure out how to return & display a column's description.
I work in Cold Fusion with SQL 2000 database.
My table name is "clients" and the column in question is "client_firstname"
The description of this column, as entered in Ent. Mgr, is "First Name"
If anyone can please help me, it would be very greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Now for the details...
I am trying this:
----------------------------------------------------------------
<cfquery name="get_ext2" datasource="#application.dsn#">
SELECT
objname As 'Column'
, value As 'Description'
FROM
::fn_listextendedproperty
('MS_Description', 'user', 'dbo', 'table','client', 'client_firstname', default)
</cfquery>
<cfoutput>
"#get_ext2.Column#"
"#get_ext2.Description#"
</cfoutput>
----------------------------------------------------------------
... and it is returning this:
"" ""
In my debug output, the query result appears as such:
----------------------------------------------------------------
get_ext2 (Records=0, Time=16ms)
SQL =
SELECT
objname As 'Column'
, value As 'Description'
FROM
::fn_listextendedproperty
('MS_Description', 'user', 'dbo', 'table','client', 'client_firstname', default)
----------------------------------------------------------------
Haaalp!
Thanks....
Richard
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