What is its purpose?How to use it?

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• Member Since Sep-2005 | Nov 5th, 2011

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Here are multiple ways to get the table information. The DESCRIBE command does not exist in MS SQL SERVER. This is an Oracle command used to describe the structure of objects within a given database. To achieve the same task in MSSQL Server, there are a series of stored procedures with the prefix SP_ that can be used. To view the structure of a table within the current database, use the command

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sp_help 'TABLE_NAME';

If you would like to see more details, Create your custom procedure

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span style="color: #ff0000;">'order'

Here is another alternative way to get the same information

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span style="color: #ff0000;">'TableName''Employee'

Here is the usage :

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span style="color: #ff0000;">'Department''sa''TableName'

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Rooshi

• Oct 17th, 2014

Sp_help will give all the details about the table columns, indexes, partitions etc.

Saket Kale

• Oct 24th, 2012

Sp_help dbo.customers;

worked for me just fine.

Thanks to the OP, this runs perfectly on SQL 2008 R2, do not know about other versions

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Answered by: Parished.D Chennai India

• Apr 24th, 2007

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create table ee (eno int, ename varchar(200), sal int)

insert into ee values(1, 'a', 2000)
insert into ee values(2, 'b', 6000)
insert into ee values(3, 'c', 8000)

select ENO, ENAME, min(sal) AS SAL from ee group by eno,ename having min(sal) > 5000

Aman Gupta

• Jul 15th, 2024

SELECT Emp_Name, MIN(Salary) FROM Employee
GROUP BY Emp_Name
HAVING MIN(SALARY) > 5000

Arshad

• Jul 30th, 2023

SELECT ENO, SUM(SALARY)
FROM EE
GROUP BY ENO
HAVING SUM(SALARY) > 5000

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Vijay

• May 10th, 2012

SELECT ID FROM TBLSAMPLE GROUP BY ID OR SELECT DISTINCT (ID) FROM TBLSAMPLE

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Mally

• Feb 13th, 2012

Good Code...however the code will delete all the duplicates... you may want to add:

delete top(n) clause in your delete statement to exactly delete the required number of records.

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