-- Desc: Document tables and columns in a SQL Server database -- License: ShoutOutWare - give me a shout out on Twitter @bdill if this script helped you. :) -- Auth: Brian Dill 2021-03-16 -- Script home: https://pastebin.com/ahCCQw3Q -- Other useful files: https://pastebin.com/u/bdill (scripts, data files, etc.) CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.adm_Document_Tables2 -- ======================================================================================= -- Desc: Selects meta data about tables/columns including the MS_Description extended propertes (if any) in each table/column -- Date: 2021-03-16 bdill initial creation (borrowed from the old adm_Document_Tables) -- Note: Paste this in cell L2 of a dump to Excel to get SQL code to update the MS_Description extended properties in SQL -- ="EXEC dbo.adm_TableAndColumnExtendedProperty_ups '"&A2&"', '"&B2&"', '"&C2&"', '"&K2&"'" @TableNameLike VARCHAR(100) = '%' , @ColumnNameLike VARCHAR(100) = '%' AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON -- ======================================================================================= -- Create a temp table to hold all of the descriptions for alter joining. IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmpDescColumns') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #tmpDescColumns CREATE TABLE #tmpDescColumns ( DescID INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL , SchemaName VARCHAR(255) NULL , TableName VARCHAR(100) NULL , ColumnName VARCHAR(100) NULL , Description VARCHAR(2000) NULL ) -- ======================================================================================= -- temp table for all PKs FKs IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmpKeys') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #tmpKeys CREATE TABLE #tmpKeys ( SchemaName VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL , TableName VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL , ColumnName VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL , ConstraintType VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL ) INSERT INTO #tmpKeys(SchemaName, TableName, ColumnName, ConstraintType) SELECT CCU.TABLE_SCHEMA, CCU.TABLE_NAME, CCU.COLUMN_NAME, TC.CONSTRAINT_TYPE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS AS TC JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE AS CCU ON CCU.CONSTRAINT_NAME = TC.CONSTRAINT_NAME -- ======================================================================================= -- Get a cursor for all of the tables to get MS_Description for each table and column DECLARE cur_tables INSENSITIVE CURSOR FOR SELECT T.object_id, S.name, T.name FROM sys.tables AS T JOIN sys.schemas AS S ON S.schema_id = T.schema_id WHERE T.name LIKE @TableNameLike ORDER BY T.name DECLARE @id INT, @current_schema_name VARCHAR(255), @current_table_name VARCHAR(256) OPEN cur_tables FETCH NEXT FROM cur_tables INTO @id, @current_schema_name, @current_table_name WHILE @@fetch_status <> -1 BEGIN -- ======================================================================================= -- Insert the descriptions for the columns in the current table into #tmpDescColumns INSERT INTO #tmpDescColumns (SchemaName, TableName, ColumnName, Description) SELECT @current_schema_name, @current_table_name, objname, Convert(varchar(2000), value) FROM fn_listextendedproperty ('MS_Description', 'schema', @current_schema_name, 'table', @current_table_name, 'column', NULL) -- ======================================================================================= -- Insert the descriptions for the current table into #tmpDescColumns INSERT INTO #tmpDescColumns (SchemaName, TableName, ColumnName, Description) SELECT @current_schema_name, @current_table_name, '', Convert(varchar(2000), value) FROM fn_listextendedproperty ('MS_Description', 'schema', @current_schema_name, 'table', @current_table_name, NULL, NULL) FETCH NEXT FROM cur_tables INTO @id, @current_schema_name, @current_table_name END CLOSE cur_tables DEALLOCATE cur_tables -- ======================================================================================= -- Final SELECT SELECT S.name AS SchemaName , T.name AS TableName , C.name AS ColumnName , CASE WHEN Y.name IN ('varchar', 'nvarchar') AND C.max_length = -1 THEN UPPER(Y.name) + '(MAX)' WHEN Y.name IN ('char', 'varchar', 'datetime2') THEN UPPER(Y.name) + '(' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), C.max_length) + ')' WHEN Y.name IN ('nvarchar', 'nchar') THEN UPPER(Y.name) + '(' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), C.max_length/2) + ')' WHEN Y.name IN ('float', 'numeric', 'decimal') THEN UPPER(Y.name) + '(' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), C.precision) + ', ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), C.scale) + ')' ELSE UPPER(Y.name) END AS DataTypeSpec , CASE C.is_nullable WHEN 0 THEN 'NOT NULL' ELSE 'NULL' END AS Nullable , CASE C.is_identity WHEN 1 THEN 'IDENTITY' ELSE '' END AS [Identity] , CASE WHEN DC.name IS NULL THEN '' --ELSE 'CONSTRAINT ' + DC.name + ' DEFAULT ' + SUBSTRING(DC.definition, 2, LEN(DC.definition)-2 ) END AS [Default] ELSE SUBSTRING(DC.definition, 2, LEN(DC.definition)-2 ) END AS [Default] , CASE WHEN K.ConstraintType = 'PRIMARY KEY' THEN 'PK' WHEN K.ConstraintType = 'FOREIGN KEY' THEN 'FK' ELSE '' END AS [Key] , ISNULL(refT.name + '.' + refC.name, '') AS RefersTo , C.column_id , ISNULL(TDC.Description, '') AS Description --, '--' AS Divider, Y.name AS DataType, C.max_length, C.precision, C.scale, C.system_type_id, C.user_type_id FROM sys.tables AS T JOIN sys.schemas AS S ON S.schema_id = T.schema_id JOIN sys.columns AS C ON C.object_id = T.object_id JOIN sys.types AS Y ON Y.user_type_id = C.user_type_id LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.default_constraints AS DC ON DC.parent_object_id = T.object_id AND DC.parent_column_id = C.column_id LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.foreign_key_columns AS FKC ON FKC.parent_object_id = C.object_id AND FKC.parent_column_id = C.column_id LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.tables AS refT ON refT.object_id = FKC.referenced_object_id LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.columns AS refC ON refC.object_id = FKC.referenced_object_id AND FKC.referenced_column_id = refC.column_id LEFT OUTER JOIN #tmpKeys AS K ON K.SchemaName = S.name AND K.TableName = T.name AND K.ColumnName = C.name LEFT OUTER JOIN #tmpDescColumns AS TDC ON TDC.SchemaName = S.name AND TDC.TableName = T.name AND TDC.ColumnName = c.name WHERE T.name <> 'sysdiagrams' AND T.name LIKE @TableNameLike AND C.name LIKE @ColumnNameLike UNION -- Row for each table SELECT S.name AS SchemaName , T.name AS Tablename , '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '' AS column_id, ISNULL(TDC.Description, '') AS Description FROM sys.tables AS T JOIN sys.schemas AS S ON S.schema_id = T.schema_id LEFT OUTER JOIN #tmpDescColumns AS TDC ON TDC.SchemaName = S.name AND TDC.TableName = T.name AND TDC.ColumnName = '' WHERE T.name LIKE @TableNameLike ORDER BY S.name, T.name, C.column_id -- ======================================================================================= -- cleanup DROP TABLE #tmpDescColumns END