Where Is Stored Columns Description For SQL Server Tables?
Jul 20, 2005
I am a beginer in SQL Server and if someone knows I would like to know
where are stored columns description - am refering at that column
description that can be write for each column when you create a table
in a SQL Server Database using SQL Server Enterprise Manager.
I want to get this information from the database and display it in a
C# application, I 've tryed COLUMNPROPERTY function and sp_columns
procedure, but this are not giving me the column definition, only
type, name, etc
Thanks
Maria
how do you use columns description on QA? I want to type it in some description for my columns. I see this option on EM. Need to know how to do it on QA
Any SQL/T-SQL command inside MsSQL Server 2000 can show the description of {all table columns or specified table columns} of specified table inside specified database?
I have hundreds of tables in my database. Is there a way to get a list of them with a description of their content (the procedure and the transaction they are related to, the way columns are created)?
When I run the same query without a specific key it fails. The results only return a single row containing Name, Description and then ALL keywords for every key ID...very odd behavior.
BTW, I need to do this in a single SQL query and not a stored proc or other method.
I am using C# to insert the form details and passing event id (numeric) to the same stored procedure in my eror handler and need to retrieve the description from event_db to display in MessageBox..
I'm using MS SQL Server 2008 and I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to identify what tables / columns contain specific records.
In the example below information generated for the end user, so the column headers (Customer ID, Customer, Address, Phone, Email, Account Balance, Currency) are not necessarily the field names from the relevant tables, they are simply more identifiable headers for the user.
Customer ID CustomerAddress Phone Email Account Balance Currency js0001 John Smith123 Nowhere Street555-123-456 jsmith@nowhere.com-100 USD jd2345 Jane Doe 61a Down the road087-963258 jdoe@downthe road.com-2108 GBP mx9999 Mr X Whoknowsville 147-852369 mrx@whoknows.com0 EUR
In reality the column headers may be called eg (CustID, CustName, CustAdr, CustPh, CustMail, CustACBal, Currency).
As I am not the generator of this report, I would like to know whether or not it is possible to identify the field names and / or what tables they exist in, if I were to used the report info to search for it. For example, could I perhaps find out the field name and table for "jd2345" or for "mrx@whoknows.com", because the Customer ID or Email may not be what the actual fields are called.
I'm not a DB admin and I don't have rights to do a stored procedure on the server. I'm guessing what I want is not so simple to do, but is it possible to do via a query?
Im just curious how i would take multiple columns from multiple tables.... would it be something like this ??? table: Products COLUMNS ProductName, ProductID table: Categorys COLUMNS CategoryName, CategoryID,ProductID SELECT Products.ProductName, Categorys.CategoryName,Products.ProductID,Categorys.CategoryID,Categorys.ProductID FROM Categorys, Tables WHERE Products.ProductID = Categorys.ProductID
I get the error below when trying to modify a table or colum with MSSMS. I can expad out the tree and look at the columns, but I can't change them, view the data in them, or create new ones. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Class does not support aggregation (or class object is remote) (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040110 (CLASS_E_NOAGGREGATION)) (Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlTools.VSIntegration) I resintallelled .NET Framework, recommended from another post. I am using .NET 3.5 BETA Frame work, ans SQL Server 2005 V 9.00.139.00
An IBM Global Services consultant is telling my client that in order to have SAP BI read any data from any other application supported by SQL Server 2005, that all tables and fields MUST be in UPPER CASE. This would mean that SAP BI could not read ANY data from AdventureWorks (which everyone needs ) but more importantly from 95% of applications written and stored on SQL Server. I find this to be ludicrious, frankly, but don't know how to find out if it is true. Anyone?
How can I find the result columns from code? Visual J++ Seems to be able to do that. ADO doesn't want to do it for me, neither does ODBC's SQLProcedureColumns().
I have created stored procedures and I am checking whether any error has occured on execution of the statements in that procedure.
If the @@Error <>0 then I need to log this error into my error logging table. For this, I need to retrieve the error description given by SQL SERVER 2000.
I tried this using the master.dbo.sysmessages table. But I get a text from master.dbo.sysmessages which has the placeholders like %l, %s, etc.
I dont want this type of error. I want the exact error description which has the actual objects names and not the placeholders.
I found some help at this link : http://www.sommarskog.se/error-handling-I.html#textretrieve
But i want to know whether there is any other way of doing this or not.
Hello, I need some help with installing release copies of SQL05(+SSIS) and VS05 on Win03R2. It is very frustrating when a basic install fails. I€™ve been going round and round with this. M$ support has not been of help yet.
I have a new development box for SQL05/VS05 development, and when I do a clean install of release software from MSDN: Windows Server 2003 R2 ent; SQL Server 2005 dev; Visual Studio 2005 pro I find that the "save to server" in SSIS (and other utilities that save a package) fails with a non-informative message *No Description Found* (see error text below).
To setup this box I install Win03R2 first, promote it to a Active Directory DC (the one and only DC in a test forest), then install VS05 onto the E: drive. Note, I must install VS05 first (before SQL05) so that all components get installed to the RAID5 *E:* drive. If SQL05 is installed first then VS that comes with SQL gets installed on to C: (no way I see to get around this) then the full VS05 pro gets forced to install on the C: drive.
Then I install SQL05 (with everything including SSIS). At this point every thing works fine, packages can be saved ok.
If I then install VS05 again so that all settings of VS05 are as expected of a standard VS05 install (not the SQL version) then the problem with saving packages arises.
If the error message was a little more informative, I might be able to track down the source of the problem. Please help! I have tried a bunch of things - creating credentials, proxies, using the most privileged accounts possible, etc.
Thanks, MikeC
Error from create SSIS package (save to server): ===================================
No description found (Microsoft Visual Studio) ------------------------------ Program Location: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToSqlServerAs(Package package, IDTSEvents events, String packagePath, String serverName, String serverUserName, String serverPassword) at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Controls.PackageLocationControl.SavePackage(Package package) at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.Controls.PackageSaveCopyForm.PackageSaveCopyForm_FormClosing(Object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
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Error from copy db wizard: ===================================
No description found (Copy Database Wizard) ------------------------------ Program Location: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToSqlServerAs(Package package, IDTSEvents events, String packagePath, String serverName, String serverUserName, String serverPassword) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.CopyDatabaseWizard.PackageCreator.SavePackage()
TRANAMT being the amount paid & TOTBAL being the balance due per the NAMEID & RMPROPID specified.The other table includes a breakdown of the total balance, in a manner of speaking, by charge code (thru a SUM(OPENAMT) query of DISTINCT CHGCODE
Also with a remaining balance (per CHGCODE) column. Any alternative solution that would effectively split the TABLE1.TRANAMT up into the respective TABLE2.CHGCODE balances? Either way, I can't figure out how to word the queries.
This question is about SQL Server 2005: I have been trying to figure out how to copy tables and stored procedures between 2 databases (on the same server) using SQL Server Management Studio. I have tried right clicking on the table name, "script table as", "drop to", "clipboard", then I click on the 2nd database, and then click on the "tables" . I change the name of the database and click "execute". This creates the table but does not copy the data. I have also tried "create to" "clipboard" and "insert to" "clipboard" and cannot seem to be able to figure out how to get the results that I want. I am new at this but need to get the tables with the data copied along with the stored procedures, even if I have to do them one at a time. When I was using SQL Server 2000, I was able to use DTS to copy objects to other databases easily. Can someone please tell me a way to accomplish what I need to do? I have gotten information here before that was very useful and was hoping that someone can help me again.Thank you so much. Carol Quinn
I was just wondering if something could be explained to me.
I have the following:
1. A table which has fields with data types and lengths / sizes 2. A stored procedure for said table which also declares variables with datatype and lengths/ sizes 3. A function in written in VB .net that uses said stored procudure. The code used to add the parameters to the sql command also requires that i give a data type and size.
How come i need to specify data type and length in three different places? Am i doin it wrong?
Any information is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Im using SQL Server 2000 with Visual Studio .Net using Visual Basic..
hi, if exists (select * from sysobjects where id = object_id('dbo.MRDD_FINAL') and sysstat & 0xf = 3) drop table dbo.MRDD_FINAL
This code was generated when I used the create a script to build a table from an existing table. is there a way to check if a a table contains data or not, The whole idea is to check if table A contains data, I need to truncate the table,otherwise I do nothing... regards
I am trying to create a SQL data adapter via the wizard, however, I get the error "Invalid object name #ords" because the stored procedure uses a temp table. Anyway around this? Thanks.
I have a table with the list of all TableNames in the database. I would like to query that table and find any tables used in any stored procedure in that DB.
Select * from dbo.MyTableList where Table_Name in ( Select Name From sys.procedures Where OBJECT_DEFINITION(object_id) LIKE '%MY_TABLE_NAME%' Order by name )
now i want use stored procedure do search for asp.net
asp.net send search keyword to sql server,sql server get keywords execute search and return results to web application(asp.net)
i don't konw how what write t-sql,please friends help me.
because table colums is different,so need write t-sql put the temp DATA TO Temp DataTable,last return Temp DataTable to asp.net,asp.net execute split pager display data,eventable colums is different,so on asp.net links is different,need t-sql programming,hope friends can help me complete this effect(i need code,C#/VB.NET +T-SQL).
i at ago like this do.
<%@ Page Language="C#" ValidateRequest="false"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
private string ReplaceStr(string k) { try { if (k != null) { string r = k.Trim(); if (r != "") { r = r.Replace("~", ""); r = r.Replace("!", ""); r = r.Replace("@", ""); r = r.Replace("#", ""); r = r.Replace("$", ""); r = r.Replace("%", ""); r = r.Replace("^", ""); r = r.Replace("&", ""); r = r.Replace("*", ""); r = r.Replace("(", ""); r = r.Replace(")", ""); r = r.Replace("\", ""); r = r.Replace("|", ""); r = r.Replace("[", ""); r = r.Replace("]", ""); r = r.Replace("{", ""); r = r.Replace("}", ""); r = r.Replace(":", ""); r = r.Replace(";", ""); r = r.Replace("'", ""); r = r.Replace("", ""); r = r.Replace("<", ""); r = r.Replace(">", ""); r = r.Replace("!", ""); r = r.Replace(",", ""); r = r.Replace(".", ""); r = r.Replace("?", ""); r = r.Replace("/", ""); r = r.Trim(); return r; } } else { return ""; } } catch { return ""; } } </script>
I'm writing an application using VB 6.0 as the front-end GUI, and theMSDE version of SQL Server as the back-end (it's a program for areally small # of users --- less then 3-4).I'm trying to determine, through the Visual Basic interface, thepermissions of each user that's using the application on his/hermachine.For example, let's say I'm user "Michael" that's sitting down at mymachine using the app. I've written. The security for logging intoSQL Server will be setup using Windows Security (Trusted Connection)as opposed to Windows & SQL Server security. When Michael accesses aparticular form in the VB 6.0 GUI, I want to run some code thatautomatically checks Michael's permission levels on the underlyingtable (actually, a stored procedure supplying the data from the table)that supplies the data to the form he's looking at and then give himsome feedback on the form as to what type of permissions he has whilehe's browsing through the data shown in the form.For example, Michael opens a particular form, code in the backgroundis run to identify that this is Michael accessing the form, the codereturns a value that identifies what type of permissions he has on thedata in the form, and a text box on the form informs Michael (forexample) that he only has read-only permissions to the data he isviewing and cannot edit any of the data.As another example, user Karen sits down at her computer, logs intothe application, opens the same form that Michael just opened, thecode is run in VB to detect the level of permissions she has on thedata being displayed in the form, and the text box on the form informsher that she has editing permissions on the data in the underlyingtable.Etc...If anyone can post an example of the code they use in accomplishingthis task in an application they've written, I'd really appreciate apoint in the right direction or a real-world example that's beenimplemented by one of you. I've written several apps. thus far usingMSDE as the back-end, but the previous apps. I've written were forclients that didn't care about restricting access to theapplication... everyone could pretty much use the application as theydesired and do anything they desired to the data.The current client I'm writing the app. mentioned here for wants tohave security in place to where various users access the applicationwith various levels of permissions to do stuff (or *not* do stuff) tothe data in the application.Thanks very much in advance for any assistance / code provided!Sincerely,Brad McCollumJoin Bytes!
Hi all, I am using Visual web developper 2005 with sql server express 2005 and i have also sql server management studio express. it's all free now . my web site is ready I didn't have problem to upload my site to my hoster. Now I want to upload all my tables and my stored procedure create locally with VWD express How can i do it ? NB: I know i can't design DB (create/modify tables and stored proc) with express edition thank's for your help
