Question

I working on an auto synchronization project where I want to get the data types from a View on SQL Server 2008 R2 and compare it to a table in the same database. I am familiar with syscolumns, However, this only appears to work with tables, not Views. Any suggestions or references would be greatly appreciated.

Essentially, if View_A has a new column added to it, I need to add the column to Table_A with the same properties as View_A so that all data types, lengths, and fields on Table_A are always the same as View_A.

Thanks

Answer 1

sys.columns includes column information for views:

CREATE VIEW dbo.Test_View
AS
SELECT * FROM sys.objects

SELECT *
FROM sys.columns
WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('dbo.Test_View')