Month: February 2015

SQL Server – Search Tables for a Column

You can use the following SQL to find all tables with a specific column name within your SQLServer database.

SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME
FROM YourDbName.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE COLUMN_NAME = 'YourColumnName'
ORDER BY COLUMN_NAME

Or, use the LIKE() method if you don’t know your specific column name. If I use the LIKE() method I try to only throw the wildcard at the end of the string… it performs a bit better that way.

SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME
FROM YourDbName.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE('SomeColumn%')
ORDER BY COLUMN_NAME

Figured I’d post this here because I’ll probably forget and want to know again in the future.