Question

How to get a column name in SQL Server?

And also, how to execute that query in PHP?

Answer 1

1. Get column name in SQL Server

For example:

SELECT table_name=sysobjects.name,
       column_name=syscolumns.name,
       datatype=systypes.name,
       length=syscolumns.length
FROM sysobjects

2. Example to execute the query in PHP

$firstname = 'fred';
$lastname  = 'fox';

$query = sprintf("SELECT firstname, lastname FROM friends WHERE firstname='%s' AND lastname='%s'",
    mysql_real_escape_string($firstname),
    mysql_real_escape_string($lastname));

$result = mysql_query($query);