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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:19:48+00:00

I have some SQL I need to get working on SQL 2005/2008. The SQL

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I have some SQL I need to get working on SQL 2005/2008. The SQL is from SQL 2000 and uses some system objects to make it work.

master.dbo.spt_provider_types
master.dbo.syscharsets
systypes
syscolumns
sysobjects

I know SQL 2005 does no longer use system tables and I can get the same information from views, but I am looking for a solution that will work for both SQL 2000 and 2005/2008. Any ideas? 

    select top 100 percent
        TABLE_CATALOG       = db_name(),
        TABLE_SCHEMA        = user_name(o.uid),
        TABLE_NAME      = o.name,
        COLUMN_NAME     = c.name,
        ORDINAL_POSITION    = convert(int,
                       (
                        select count(*)
                        from syscolumns sc
                        where sc.id     =  c.id
                          AND sc.number =  c.number
                          AND sc.colid  <= c.colid
                        )),
        IS_COMPUTED = convert(bit, c.iscomputed)

    from
        syscolumns c left join syscomments m on c.cdefault = m.id and m.colid = 1,
        sysobjects o,
        master.dbo.spt_provider_types d,
        systypes t,
        master.dbo.syscharsets      a_cha /* charset/1001, not sortorder.*/
    where
        o.name = @table_name and
        permissions(o.id, c.name) <> 0
    and     (o.type in ('U','V','S') OR (o.type in ('TF', 'IF') and c.number = 0))
    and     o.id = c.id
    and     t.xtype = d.ss_dtype
    and     c.length = case when d.fixlen > 0 then d.fixlen else c.length end
    and     c.xusertype = t.xusertype
    and a_cha.type = 1001 /* type is charset */
    and a_cha.id = isnull(convert(tinyint, CollationPropertyFromID(c.collationid, 'sqlcharset')),
            convert(tinyint, ServerProperty('sqlcharset'))) -- make sure there's one and only one row selected for each column
    order by 2, 3, c.colorder

) tbl where IS_COMPUTED = 0
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you trying to make the query work in SQL 2000 and SQL 2005, then it should mostly work as is. Microsoft created compatibility views for the system tables specifically so that legacy code would not break. The one problem might be the spt_provider_types table. For that you will either need to use something else like the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views or you can recreate the spt_ tables by running a script in the installs folder on the SQL 2005 system called u_tables.sql.

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