How can I get column names from a table in SQL Server?

I want to query the name of all columns of a table. I found how to do this in:

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But I also need to know: **how can this be done in *Microsoft SQL Server* (2008 in my case)?**

SELECT column_name, data_type, character_maximum_length, table_name,ordinal_position, is_nullable
FROM information_schema.COLUMNS WHERE table_name LIKE 'YOUR_TABLE_NAME'
ORDER BY ordinal_position

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SELECT
T.TABLE_NAME AS 'TABLE NAME',
C.COLUMN_NAME AS 'COLUMN NAME'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES T
INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS C ON T.TABLE_NAME=C.TABLE_NAME
WHERE T.TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE'
AND T.TABLE_NAME LIKE 'Your Table Name'

This SO question is missing the following approach :

-- List down all columns of table 'Logging'
select * from sys.all_columns where object_id = OBJECT_ID('Logging')

By using this query you get the answer:

select Column_name
from Information_schema.columns
where Table_name like 'table name'

select *
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
where TABLE_NAME='tableName'

This is better than getting from `sys.columns` because it shows `DATA_TYPE` directly.

You can try this.This gives all the column names with their respective data types.

desc <TABLE NAME> ;

you can use this query

SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE COLUMN_NAME like N'%[ColumnName]%' and TABLE_NAME = N'[TableName]'

You can write this query to get column name and all details without using
INFORMATION_SCHEMA in MySql :


SHOW COLUMNS FROM database_Name.table_name;

SELECT c.Name
FROM sys.columns c
JOIN sys.objects o ON o.object_id = c.object_id
WHERE o.object_id = OBJECT_ID('TABLE_NAME')
ORDER BY c.Name