Execute the set_columnsXML stored procedure
- Last UpdatedApr 24, 2025
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This stored procedure will list information about the column (or field) within the specified database (or qualifier), and table. The Microsoft SQL wildcard character % may be used to specify any of the input arguments. The output is in XML format.
Note: The specification of wildcard inputs to this call may return a massive stream of XML. Use with caution.
ODBC Syntax
call sp_columnsXML(<database>,<table>,<column>)
Example
call sp_columnsXML('RTDB', 'message', '%');
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<SQLEngineDatastoreSchema>
<database name="RTDB" owner="dbo">
<table name="message" owner="dbo" description="Message text and color"
allowUpdate="yes" allowSelect="yes" allowDelete="yes" allowInsert="yes" tablelast=""
modified="10/10/2013 10:01:27.731" permissionslastmodified="10/10/2013
10:01:27.731">
<column name="name" owner="dbo" description="Message key
name" datatype="string" length="31" casesensitive="no" defaultvalue="yes"
nullable="no" precision="31" radix="" scale="" scope="" pseudocolumn=""
columntype="rowid"/>
<column name="setName" owner="dbo" description="Message
Set name" datatype="string" length="31" casesensitive="no" defaultvalue="yes"
nullable="no" precision="31" radix="" scale="" scope="" pseudocolumn=""
columntype="regular"/>...
<index name="" owner="dbo" column="" unique="unknown"
indextype="statistics" sequence="1" collation="" cardinality="129" pages=""
filtercondition=""/>
<index name="name" owner="dbo" column="name"
unique="yes" indextype="hashed" sequence="1" collation="ascending" cardinality="129"
pages="" filtercondition=""/>...
<key primarykey="" primarydatabase="RTDB"
primaryowner="dbo" primarytable="message" primarycolumn="name" sequence="1"
foreignkey="" foreigndatabase="" foreignowner="" foreigntable="" foreigncolumn=""
updaterule="" deleterule=""/>
<key primarykey="" primarydatabase="EnumDB"
primaryowner="dbo" primarytable="pntcolor" primarycolumn="edescr" sequence="1"
foreignkey="" foreigndatabase="RTDB" foreignowner="dbo" foreigntable="message"
foreigncolumn="fg" updaterule="" deleterule=""/>...
</table>
</database></SQLEngineDatastoreSchema>