We have some pretty large databases in our system and at times I need to find all columns in a database that have the same name.
DECLARE @ColName VARCHAR(200) = '%cert%' SELECT Obj.Name AS [TableName], Col.name AS [ColumnName] FROM DBO.SysObjects Obj INNER JOIN DBO.SysColumns Col ON Col.Id = Obj.Id WHERE Col.Name LIKE @ColName
Here are my results for all columns that have “cert” in the name.
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I'm presuming this is for Microsoft SQL Server, given DBO.SysObjects.
This seems like an argument in favor of using consistent column names across your database.
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Yup. It is great when things are consistent. I have another one I'm going to edit and get up here eventually that looks at each row – in each column – in each table across the database. It's a slow but through way of finding things like unique keys.
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