Question

I have SQL server 2008 R2. I want to get column name and table name where this columns is situated. And that i want to display for specified type. For example:
let’s say i want to see all tinyint columns. The result should be the following:

ColumnName|TableName
orderID   |Orders
clientID  |Orders
refID     |discounts

Is it possible to write query to do that?

Answer 1

You would use the system tables to get this data:

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(c.OBJECT_ID) TableName
    , c.name ColumnName
FROM sys.columns c
JOIN sys.types t 
    ON c.user_type_id=t.user_type_id
WHERE t.name = 'tinyint' 
ORDER BY c.OBJECT_ID;

Additional details on this can be found:

SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All The Column With Specific Data Types