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Asked: 2026-05-10T15:10:06+00:00

Say I have a table called myTable. What is the SQL command to return

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Say I have a table called myTable. What is the SQL command to return all of the field names of this table? If the answer is database specific then I need SQL Server right now but would be interested in seeing the solution for other database systems as well.

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  1. MySQL 3 and 4 (and 5):

    desc tablename

    which is an alias for

    show fields from tablename

    SQL Server (from 2000) and MySQL 5:

    select COLUMN_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS  where TABLE_NAME = 'tablename'

    Completing the answer: like people below have said, in SQL Server you can also use the stored procedure sp_help

    exec sp_help 'tablename'
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