Comma Separated List of all columns in the Database (Tablename | Column_names…)

Question

In SQL Server, I would like see Table_Name and all the Columns associated with that Table_Name in a database. So the Output should look like this:

      TABLE_N         


        

Answer 1

Select TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME
    , Stuff(
        (
        Select ', ' + C.COLUMN_NAME
        From INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS As C
        Where C.TABLE_SCHEMA = T.TABLE_SCHEMA
            And C.TABLE_NAME = T.TABLE_NAME
        Order By C.ORDINAL_POSITION
        For Xml Path('')
        ), 1, 2, '') As Columns
From INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES As T

As mentioned in comments, the above will include views. If you want to exclude views you can do the following:

Select T.TABLE_SCHEMA, T.TABLE_NAME
    , Stuff(
        (
        Select ', ' + C.COLUMN_NAME
        From INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS As C
        Where C.TABLE_SCHEMA = T.TABLE_SCHEMA
            And C.TABLE_NAME = T.TABLE_NAME
        Order By C.ORDINAL_POSITION
        For Xml Path('')
        ), 1, 2, '') As Columns
From INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES As T
    Left Join INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS As V
        On V.TABLE_SCHEMA = T.TABLE_SCHEMA
            And V.TABLE_NAME = T.TABLE_NAME
Where V.TABLE_NAME Is Null