Getting all table and schema names containing particular column name





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Getting all table and schema names containing particular column name
Sometimes, we have a database containing hundreds of tables and we need to find a table containing a particular column name.
In the following SQL, just replace
%email%
by desired own column name to get the table(s) name in which such column may exist!
SELECT t.name AS table_name, SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id) AS schema_name, c.name AS column_name, type.name as column_datatype, c.max_length AS column_Length FROM sys.tables AS t INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID JOIN sys.types type ON c.system_type_id=type.system_type_id WHERE c.name LIKE '%email%' AND type.name <> 'sysname' ORDER BY schema_name, table_name;