How do I return the SQL data types from my query?

Question

I\'ve a SQL query that queries an enormous (as in, hundreds of views/tables with hard-to-read names like CMM-CPP-FAP-ADD) database that I don\'t need nor want to understand. Th

Answer 1

You could also insert the results (or top 10 results) into a temp table and get the columns from the temp table (as long as the column names are all different).

SELECT TOP 10 *
INTO #TempTable
FROM 

Then use:

EXEC tempdb.dbo.sp_help N'#TempTable';

or

SELECT * 
FROM tempdb.sys.columns 
WHERE [object_id] = OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#TempTable');

Extrapolated from Aaron's answer here.