Question

I am creating a query that returns the number of columns in each table, but I want to exclude Views.

The following works but returns View results:

SELECT COUNT(*), table_name
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
Group By table_name

Any suggestions?

NOTE: MSSQL 2005+

Answer 1

This assumes SQL 2005 or higher

SELECT 
    t.name,
    count(c.name)
FROM 

    sys.tables t 
    inner join sys.columns c
    ON t.object_id = c.object_id


group by t.name