Life with SQL server

  Are you working with a large SQL Server database and need to quickly find out which tables contain a specific column? This common scenario can be efficiently handled with a simple SQL query or function. In this guide, we'll walk through how to create a function in SQL Server that searches for a particular column across all tables in a database. The Problem Imagine you have a SQL Server database with numerous tables, and you need to identify which tables contain a specific column, such as 'parent'. Manually searching through each table can be time-consuming and inefficient, especially in large databases. The Solution We can create a user-defined function in SQL Server that dynamically searches for the specified column name across all tables in the database. Here's the function: sql Use yourDatabaseName; CREATE FUNCTION FindColumnInTables ( @ColumnName NVARCHAR( 128 )) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN ( SELECT s.name AS SchemaName, t.name AS TableName, sc.name AS