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How to find out the Tables a column name appears in

Hint Ref: 021112140002
Hint Date: 14/12/2011

Hint Details:

Lets say we were looking for all the tables with column names that contained the word 'Document' - simply open SQL Tool and execute the following SQL:

 

select table_name, column_name from systable join syscolumn where column_name like '%document%';


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