This is a really simple way of grabbing the column details for all the user tables in a SQL Server database, and converting those details to XML. If you wanted to get a little creative, you could re-use this with XSL to create SQL and ASP templates for your apps.
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' Name: Completely Reusable SQL Server/XML Generator !
' Description:This is a really simple way of grabbing the column details for all the user tables in a SQL Server database, and converting those details to XML. If you wanted to get a little creative, you could re-use this with XSL to create SQL and ASP templates for your apps.
' By: Brandon McPherson
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' Inputs:The only real 'condition' is that you should have a default database set up in your connection.
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' Returns:XML data outlining the column information for the tables in a database.
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' Assumes:I know this works in SQL Server 2000 and version 7.0, but I won't guarantee anything before that (I don't have copies of the system tables to check).
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'This code is copyrighted and has' limited warranties.Please see http://www.Planet-Source-Code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=6504&lngWId=4'for details.'**************************************
<%
Set Cnn1 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set adoCmd = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Dim sXML
' Set the dsn up to a database
Cnn1.Open "DSN=nwind;UID=sa;PWD="
Set adoCmd.ActiveConnection = Cnn1
' I'm sure there's a much more graceful way to do this....
adoCmd.CommandText = "select TableName=t1.[name], ColumnName=c1.[name], datatype=(select a1.[name] from dbo.systypes as a1 where a1.xusertype = c1.xusertype), c1.isnullable, c1.length, c1.colid from dbo.syscolumns as c1 inner join dbo.sysobjects as t1 on c1.id = t1.id where t1.xtype = 'U'"
Set tmpRST = adoCmd.Execute
sXML = "<?xml version=""1.0""?><tables>"
Dim sTable
Dim iColCount
Dim intIterator
iColCount = tmpRST.Fields.Count - 1
sTable = tmpRST.Fields("TableName")
sXML = sXML & "<table><name>" & tmpRST("TableName") & "</name>"
Do While Not tmpRST.EOF
If tmpRST.Fields("TableName") <> sTable Then
sXML = sXML & "</table><table><name>" & tmpRST.Fields("TableName") & "</name>"
End If
sXML = sXML & "<column>"
For intIterator = 1 To iColCount
sXML = sXML & "<" & tmpRST.Fields(intIterator).Name & ">" & tmpRST.Fields(intIterator) & "</" & tmpRST.Fields(intIterator).Name & ">"
Next
sXML = sXML & "</column>"
sTable = tmpRST.Fields("TableName")
tmpRST.MoveNext
Loop
sXML = sXML & "</table></tables>"
Response.Write sXML
%>
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