Article ID: 48711
Article Last Modified on 3/2/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SQL Server 4.21a Standard Edition
- Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Standard Edition
- Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q48711
When writing general purpose applications, it is often necessary to find out the names of the columns that comprise the key of a table. sp_help displays this information, but it is not readily usable inside a program in this format. The information is stored in the keys columns in SYSINDEXES in a highly encoded form. The following is a built-in function for decoding this data into a usable form:
INDEX_COL( "sysobjects", 2, 1 )
This function will return a text string containing the name of the first column that comprises the second index on sysobjects. It is described in "Microsoft SQL Server Command Reference."
Additional query words: Transact-SQL
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