Can someone know if there is a way to find the column name that has the identity property in an sql server table
Thanks in advance
You can use sys.columns for this quite easily.
select *
from sys.columns
where object_id = object_id('YourTableNameHere')
AND is_identity = 1
As an alternative to looking it up in the metadata, you can use $identity to refer to an identity column. For example, given a table:
CREATE TABLE test_table (some_random_name INT IDENTITY, other_column VARCHAR(20));
...you can use:
SELECT $identity, other_column FROM test_table;
to bring back some_random_name, other_column.
($identity replaces the deprecated IDENTITYCOL of earlier versions of SQL Server.)
You can use the solution in this link to search the whole database for a specific value, which can be a username you know exists "somewhere" in the database.
It gives you the table and column name where that specific value exists.
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In MySQL you can do SELECT CREATE TABLE .... and it will return the CREATE statement that was used to create this table. I need to do the same in SQL Server.
Is there any similar functionality in SQL Server? I have a table name test_table.
I need to run a SELECT statement that would return the CREATE TABLE string that was used to create this table. I tried this but it didn't work. How can I achieve this result in SQL Server?
You could try SELECT INTO and specify the name of a temporary table (prefixed with #). It also works with physical tables (although I've not found a use for this). Something like this
select '123' as colName into #newTable;
select * from #newTable;
colName
123
I have a list of columns. I want to build a query to find if the columns exists in the ServicingDB database.
We can also use the filter for the tables starting with abcd (example).
Thanks in advance.
You can use the below query to find out the Specific column along with database name, table name etc.
select * from information_schema.columns where column_name = 'yourColumnName'
I'm starting a new SQL Server Azure DB from scratch. I want to establish a strong source control so I want to be careful in how I create all my tables.
What is the best method to check if the table exists and only execute my CREATE TABLE statement if it does not exist yet? I'm working with passing dynamic SQL to a stored procedure that checks for the tables existence, but that is so limiting. There has to be a preferred way to do this out there. I mean I could preface every query with:
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM sys.objects
WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].j[myTable]') AND type in(N'U'))
BEGIN
CREATE TABLE myTable(....)
END
But that's pretty repetitive.
More simply:
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.tables WHERE Name = N'myTable')
CREATE TABLE myTable .......
Idea: use the more focused sys.tables catalog view, instead of the all-encompassing sys.objects - then you don't have to remember those rather unintuitive type values..... - but yes, that is the safest way to do this kind of code.
As of SQL Server 2016, you can also use the
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS myTable;
CREATE TABLE myTable .......
command (which is new - see here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverstorageengine/2015/11/03/drop-if-exists-new-thing-in-sql-server-2016/)
I have a huge database in Sql-Server and I need to get all the names of the tables into one new table that I have made. This can be done?
I appreciate your help.
The new table has the fields ID, TableName, Status. Id is the identity and status for now will be 1, not null
Use this query below to get all tables name from your database
SELECT name FROM sys.tables
Then you can do a insert query like -
insert into newtable(name) select * from sys.tables
Here I'm trying to migrate some data from a table column to a brand new table in which destination column have an unique constraint. Basically I'm trying to:
INSERT INTO FooTable VALUES (SELECT BarTable.Code FROM BarTable)
FooTable have only 2 columns: ID and Code (column with unique constraint).
But on BarTable.Code, maybe there are some duplicate values that I need to treat and fit them in the new constraint (maybe: Code = Code + 1 or else).
Any ideas on how to do that?
I am using MS SQL Server 2008 R2.
Thank you in advance.
You can use the MERGE command and insert a different record when the codes match.
Here is an example based on your scenario:
MERGE FooTable AS T
USING BarTable AS S
ON (T.Code = S.Code)
WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET
THEN INSERT(Code) VALUES(S.Code)
WHEN MATCHED
THEN INSERT(Code) VALUES(S.Code+1)
You can use Not Exists
INSERT INTO FooTable VALUES (SELECT distinct br.Code FROM BarTable br where NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM FooTable bs where br.code=bs.code ) )