To get total number of columns in a table in sql

Question

I need a query in sql to get total columns in a table.Can anybody help?

Answer 1

Select Table_Name, Count(*) As ColumnCount
From Information_Schema.Columns
Group By Table_Name
Order By Table_Name

This code show a list of tables with a number of columns present in that table for a database.

If you want to know the number of column for a particular table in a database then simply use where clause e.g. where Table_Name='name_your_table'

Answer 2

This query gets the columns name

SELECT COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns where TABLE_NAME = 'YourTableName'

And this one gets the count

SELECT Count(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns where TABLE_NAME = 'YourTableName'

Answer 3

SELECT COUNT(COLUMN_NAME) 
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS 
WHERE TABLE_CATALOG = 'database' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo'
AND TABLE_NAME = 'table'     

Answer 4

It can be done using:-

SELECT COUNT(COLUMN_NAME) 'NO OF COLUMN' FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'Address'

Answer 5

The below query will display all the tables and corresponding column count in a database schema

SELECT Table_Name, count(*) as [No.of Columns]
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE table_schema = 'dbo' -- schema name
group by table_name

Answer 6

Correction to top query above, to allow to run from any database

SELECT COUNT(COLUMN_NAME) FROM [*database*].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE 
TABLE_CATALOG = 'database' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo'
AND TABLE_NAME = 'table'