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    <p>I am trying to list all of the columns from whichever Adventureworks table I choose. What T-sQL statement or stored proc can I execute to see this list of all columns? I want to use my C# web app to input one input parameter = table_name and then get a list of all the column_names as output. Right now I am trying to execute the sp_columns stored proc which works, but I can't get just the one column with select and exec combined. Does anybody know how to do this?</p> <p>Thanks everyone for all your replies, but none of your answers do what I need. Let me explain my problem more for you. The query below returns what I need. But my problem is incorporating this logic into an SP that takes an input parameter. So here is the successful SQL statement:</p> <pre><code>select col.name from sysobjects obj inner join syscolumns col on obj.id = col.id where obj.name = 'AddressType' order by obj.name </code></pre> <p>And currently my SP looks like:</p> <pre><code>CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[getColumnNames] @TableName VarChar(50) AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; SET @TableName = RTRIM(@TableName) DECLARE @cmd AS NVARCHAR(max) SET @cmd = N'SELECT col.name from sysobjects obj ' + 'inner join syscolumns col on obj.id = col.id ' + 'where obj.name = ' + @TableName EXEC sp_executesql @cmd END </code></pre> <p>But I run the above as</p> <pre><code>exec getColumnNames 'AddressType' </code></pre> <p>and it gives me error:</p> <pre><code>Invalid column name 'AddressType' </code></pre> <p>How do I accomplish this?</p>
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