Question

How can you query SQL Server for the creation date for a SQL Server 2005 table column?

I tried the sp_columns [tablename] to get that information, but the creation date wasn’t included in this stored procedure.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

There’s this system table named sys.Columns that you can get columns information from it.
if you want to see columns of a particular table you can do as follows:

SELECT col.* from sys.objects obj 
inner join sys.columns col 
on obj.object_Id=col.object_Id 
and obj.Name=@tableName

Or you can get table information like this:

SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE Name=@tableName

but I couldn’t find any information on creation date of a column.

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This might help.