Question

I’m doing some recon work and having to dig through a few hundred SQL Server database tables to find columns.

Is there a way to easily search for columns in the database and return just the table name that the column belongs to?

I found this, but that also returns Stored procedures with that column name in it…

Answer 1

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(object_id) FROM sys.columns WHERE name = 'foo'

This includes views though but can be further filtered . It may be useful though.

More generally…

SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE COLUMN_NAME = 'foo'

sys.columns