Question

Looking for a script to scan all tables in all SQL Server databases and list the columns which are large objects (TEXT, NTEXT, ,IMAGE VARCHAR(MAX), NVARCHAR(MAX), FILESTREAM, XML, VARBINARY).

while I probably can code this myself, I want a ready made script.

Answer 1

 select * from information_schema.columns where data_type in 
    ('TEXT', 'NTEXT','IMAGE' ,'XML', 'VARBINARY')
    or 
    (data_type = 'VARCHAR' and character_maximum_length = -1)
    OR
    (data_type = 'NVARCHAR' and character_maximum_length = -1)

Update Removed FILESTREAM from IN since the data_type is VARBINARY which is already captured