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                                    | lkiran086Starting Member
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2014-07-02 : 10:46:49 
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                                            | HI AllI have a table contains 40 columns , but I want only the columns names only ...How can I select ? |  |  
                                    | webfredMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
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                                    | James KMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2014-07-02 : 12:49:58 
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                                          | An alternative is to query sys.columns SELECT * FROM sys.columns WHERE OBJECT_NAME(object_id) = 'YourTableNameHere' ORDER BY column_id;There is a case to be made for using sys.columns instead of INFORMATION_SCHEMA, unless you have a requirement to be ANSI compliant, e.g. http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2011/11/03/the-case-against-information-schema-views.aspx |  
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