|  |  | Archives of the TeradataForumMessage Posted: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 @ 21:07:40 GMT
 
 
  
| Subj: |  | Re: Finding data types in views |  |  |  | From: |  | Pradip.Bhogal |  
 You can use following SQL to generate Select statements and Export result set to excel file using those statements. 
     SEL
         'SEL   '||
         ''''||DATABASENAME||''''||','||''''||TABLENAME||''''||','||''''||COLUMNNAME|
         |''''||','||' TYPE('||TRIM(COLUMNNAME)||')'||'
           '||'FROM  '||TRIM(DATABASENAME)||'.'||TRIM(TABLENAME)||' SAMPLE 1;'
         (VARCHAR(200))
     FROM
         ( SEL A.DATABASENAME ,A.TABLENAME ,A.COLUMNNAME FROM DBC.COLUMNS A ,DBC.TABLES  B
           WHERE A.DATABASENAME = B.DATABASENAME
           AND A.TABLENAME = B.TABLENAME
           AND A.DATABASENAME = 'DATABASENAME'
           AND TABLEKIND ='V'
         ) A
     ORDER BY 1
 -Pradip Singh 
 
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