Sunday, October 17, 2010

List all Tables using SQL Query in a database

This is not needed in general development times. But, very rare cases only we have to get these kind of requirements and use these rarely used commands. I have a requirement where I need to know the list of tables in a database and do something. So, below is the simple query which is used to list or display the tables in a database.

select [name] from dbo.sysobjects where OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1

"sysobjects" is the system table which holds all objects in a database. By using where clause "IsUserTable" returns true if it is a table and filtering the results.
Hope this helps.

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