SQL SERVER – 2012 – List All The Column With Specific Data Types in Database

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2012/10/13/sql-server-2012-list-all-the-column-with-specific-data-types-in-database/

5 years ago I wrote script SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All The Column With Specific Data Types, when I read it again, it is very much relevant and I liked it. This is one of the script which every developer would like to keep it handy. I have upgraded the script bit more. I have included few additional information which I believe I should have added from the beginning. It is difficult to visualize the final script when we are writing it first time. I use every script which I write on this blog, the matter of the fact, I write only those scripts here which I was using at that time. It is quite possible that as time passes by my needs are changing and I change my script. Here is the updated script of this subject. If there are any user data types, it will list the same as well.

SELECT s.name AS 'schema', ts.name AS TableName,c.name AS column_name, c.column_id,SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id) AS DatatypeSchema,t.name AS Datatypename
,t.is_user_defined, t.is_assembly_type
,c.is_nullable, c.max_length, c.PRECISION,c.scale
FROM sys.columns AS c
INNER JOIN sys.types AS t ON c.user_type_id=t.user_type_id
INNER JOIN sys.tables ts ON ts.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_IDINNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = ts.schema_id
ORDER BY s.name, ts.name, c.column_id

I would be very interested to see your script which lists all the columns of the database with data types. If I am missing something in my script, I will modify it based on your comment. This way this page will be a good bookmark for the future for all of us.

SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All The Column With Specific Data Types

Since we upgraded to SQL Server 2005 from SQL Server 2000, we have used following script to find out columns with specific datatypes many times. It is very handy small script.

SQL Server 2005 has new datatype of VARCHAR(MAX), we decided to change all our TEXT datatype columns to VARCHAR(MAX). The reason to do that as TEXT datatype will be deprecated in future version of SQL Server and VARCHAR(MAX) is superior to TEXT datatype in features. We run following script to identify all the columns which are TEXT datatype and developer converts them to VARCHAR(MAX)

Script 1 : Simple script to identify all the columns with datatype TEXT in specific database
SELECT OBJECT_NAME(c.OBJECT_ID) TableName, c.name ColumnName
FROM sys.columns AS c
JOIN sys.types AS t ON c.user_type_id=t.user_type_id
WHERE t.name = 'text' --you can change text to other datatypesORDER BY c.OBJECT_ID;GO
Script 2 : Extended script to identify all the columns datatype and other information in specific database
SELECTOBJECT_NAME(c.OBJECT_ID) TableName
,c.name AS ColumnName
,SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id) AS SchemaName
,t.name AS TypeName
,t.is_user_defined
,t.is_assembly_type
,c.max_length
,c.PRECISION,c.scale
FROM sys.columns AS c
JOIN sys.types AS t ON c.user_type_id=t.user_type_id
ORDER BY c.OBJECT_ID;