Question

I want to get a table’s schema in order. This question and its answer is exactly my question, and what I want to do. However it feels (to me) pretty hackish, and being two years old now I was hoping that the answer was out-of-date. Is there truly still no way to get a table’s schema in its native order? (e.g. ADOX’s OpenSchema(adSchemaTables...))?

Subjective side-question: is this not a huge gaping hole in ADO.NET in general!?

Answer 1

exec sp_help '<tablename>'

or

select * from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_NAME = '<tablename>' order by ORDINAL_POSITION