From a Sybase Database, how I can get table description ( field names and types)?

Question

I have access to command line isql and I like to get Meta-Data of all the tables of a given database, possibly in a formatted file. How I can achieve that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here a different approach to get meta data. This very helpful SQL command returns you the table / view definition as text:

SELECT text FROM syscomments WHERE id = OBJECT_ID('MySchema.MyTable') ORDER BY number, colid2, colid

Enjoy Patrick