Database Columns - List By Database

Service:: SQL Database

API Version:: 2023-08-01

List database columns

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/{serverName}/databases/{databaseName}/columns?api-version=2023-08-01

With optional parameters:

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/{serverName}/databases/{databaseName}/columns?schema={schema}&table={table}&column={column}&orderBy={orderBy}&$skiptoken={$skiptoken}&api-version=2023-08-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
databaseName	path	True	string	The name of the database.
resourceGroupName	path	True	string	The name of the resource group that contains the resource. You can obtain this value from the Azure Resource Manager API or the portal.
serverName	path	True	string	The name of the server.
subscriptionId	path	True	string	The subscription ID that identifies an Azure subscription.
api-version	query	True	string	The API version to use for the request.
$skiptoken	query		string	An opaque token that identifies a starting point in the collection.
column	query		string[]
orderBy	query		string[]
schema	query		string[]
table	query		string[]

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	DatabaseColumnListResult	Successfully retrieved database columns.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	* Error Responses: * 400 UnsupportedColumnOrderByProperty - The order-by property '{0}' is not supported. Allowed properties are: {1}. 400 UnsupportedColumnSortDirection - The column sort direction '{0}' is not supported. Allowed values are: {1}. 400 UpdateNotAllowedOnPausedDatabase - User attempted to perform an update on a paused database. 404 SubscriptionDoesNotHaveServer - The requested server was not found 404 DatabaseDoesNotExist - User has specified a database name that does not exist on this server instance. 404 SourceDatabaseNotFound - The source database does not exist. 404 ResourceDoesNotExist - Resource with the name '{0}' does not exist. To continue, specify a valid resource name. 503 DatabaseUnavailable - The operation failed because the database is unavailable.

Name

Type

Description

200 OK

DatabaseColumnListResult

Successfully retrieved database columns.

Other Status Codes

ErrorResponse

*** Error Responses: ***

400 UnsupportedColumnOrderByProperty - The order-by property '{0}' is not supported. Allowed properties are: {1}.
400 UnsupportedColumnSortDirection - The column sort direction '{0}' is not supported. Allowed values are: {1}.
400 UpdateNotAllowedOnPausedDatabase - User attempted to perform an update on a paused database.
404 SubscriptionDoesNotHaveServer - The requested server was not found
404 DatabaseDoesNotExist - User has specified a database name that does not exist on this server instance.
404 SourceDatabaseNotFound - The source database does not exist.
404 ResourceDoesNotExist - Resource with the name '{0}' does not exist. To continue, specify a valid resource name.
503 DatabaseUnavailable - The operation failed because the database is unavailable.

Examples

Filter database columns

List database columns

Filter database columns

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/myRG/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/serverName/databases/myDatabase/columns?schema=dbo&table=customer&table=address&column=username&orderBy=schema asc&orderBy=table&orderBy=column desc&api-version=2023-08-01

using Azure;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Sql.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Sql;

// Generated from example definition: specification/sql/resource-manager/Microsoft.Sql/stable/2023-08-01/examples/ColumnsListByDatabaseMax.json
// this example is just showing the usage of "DatabaseColumns_ListByDatabase" operation, for the dependent resources, they will have to be created separately.

// get your azure access token, for more details of how Azure SDK get your access token, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/sdk/authentication?tabs=command-line
TokenCredential cred = new DefaultAzureCredential();
// authenticate your client
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(cred);

// this example assumes you already have this SqlDatabaseResource created on azure
// for more information of creating SqlDatabaseResource, please refer to the document of SqlDatabaseResource
string subscriptionId = "00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444";
string resourceGroupName = "myRG";
string serverName = "serverName";
string databaseName = "myDatabase";
ResourceIdentifier sqlDatabaseResourceId = SqlDatabaseResource.CreateResourceIdentifier(subscriptionId, resourceGroupName, serverName, databaseName);
SqlDatabaseResource sqlDatabase = client.GetSqlDatabaseResource(sqlDatabaseResourceId);

// invoke the operation and iterate over the result
IEnumerable<string> schema = new string[] { "dbo" };
IEnumerable<string> table = new string[] { "customer", "address" };
IEnumerable<string> column = new string[] { "username" };
IEnumerable<string> orderBy = new string[] { "schema asc", "table", "column desc" };
await foreach (SqlDatabaseColumnResource item in sqlDatabase.GetDatabaseColumnsAsync(schema: schema, table: table, column: column, orderBy: orderBy))
{
    // the variable item is a resource, you could call other operations on this instance as well
    // but just for demo, we get its data from this resource instance
    DatabaseColumnData resourceData = item.Data;
    // for demo we just print out the id
    Console.WriteLine($"Succeeded on id: {resourceData.Id}");
}

Console.WriteLine("Succeeded");

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "value": [
    {
      "properties": {
        "columnType": "nvarchar",
        "temporalType": "NonTemporalTable",
        "memoryOptimized": false,
        "isComputed": false
      },
      "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/myRG/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/serverName/databases/myDatabase/schemas/dbo/tables/customer/columns/username",
      "name": "username",
      "type": "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/schemas/tables/columns"
    }
  ]
}

List database columns

Sample request

HTTP
dotnet

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/myRG/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/serverName/databases/myDatabase/columns?api-version=2023-08-01

using Azure;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Sql.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Sql;

// Generated from example definition: specification/sql/resource-manager/Microsoft.Sql/stable/2023-08-01/examples/ColumnsListByDatabaseMin.json
// this example is just showing the usage of "DatabaseColumns_ListByDatabase" operation, for the dependent resources, they will have to be created separately.

// get your azure access token, for more details of how Azure SDK get your access token, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/sdk/authentication?tabs=command-line
TokenCredential cred = new DefaultAzureCredential();
// authenticate your client
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(cred);

// this example assumes you already have this SqlDatabaseResource created on azure
// for more information of creating SqlDatabaseResource, please refer to the document of SqlDatabaseResource
string subscriptionId = "00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444";
string resourceGroupName = "myRG";
string serverName = "serverName";
string databaseName = "myDatabase";
ResourceIdentifier sqlDatabaseResourceId = SqlDatabaseResource.CreateResourceIdentifier(subscriptionId, resourceGroupName, serverName, databaseName);
SqlDatabaseResource sqlDatabase = client.GetSqlDatabaseResource(sqlDatabaseResourceId);

// invoke the operation and iterate over the result
await foreach (SqlDatabaseColumnResource item in sqlDatabase.GetDatabaseColumnsAsync())
{
    // the variable item is a resource, you could call other operations on this instance as well
    // but just for demo, we get its data from this resource instance
    DatabaseColumnData resourceData = item.Data;
    // for demo we just print out the id
    Console.WriteLine($"Succeeded on id: {resourceData.Id}");
}

Console.WriteLine("Succeeded");

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "value": [
    {
      "properties": {
        "columnType": "int",
        "temporalType": "NonTemporalTable",
        "memoryOptimized": false,
        "isComputed": false
      },
      "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/myRG/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/serverName/databases/myDatabase/schemas/dbo/tables/table1/columns/col1",
      "name": "col1",
      "type": "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/schemas/tables/columns"
    },
    {
      "properties": {
        "columnType": "bit",
        "temporalType": "SystemVersionedTemporalTable",
        "memoryOptimized": false,
        "isComputed": false
      },
      "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/myRG/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/serverName/databases/myDatabase/schemas/dbo/tables/table1/columns/col2",
      "name": "col2",
      "type": "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/schemas/tables/columns"
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
ColumnDataType	The column data type.
DatabaseColumn	A database column resource.
DatabaseColumnListResult	A list of database columns.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response
TableTemporalType	The table temporal type.

ColumnDataType

Enumeration

The column data type.

Value	Description
image
text
uniqueidentifier
date
time
datetime2
datetimeoffset
tinyint
smallint
int
smalldatetime
real
money
datetime
float
sql_variant
ntext
bit
decimal
numeric
smallmoney
bigint
hierarchyid
geometry
geography
varbinary
varchar
binary
char
timestamp
nvarchar
nchar
xml
sysname

DatabaseColumn

Object

A database column resource.

Name	Type	Description
id	string	Resource ID.
name	string	Resource name.
properties.columnType	ColumnDataType	The column data type.
properties.isComputed	boolean	Whether or not the column is computed.
properties.memoryOptimized	boolean	Whether or not the column belongs to a memory optimized table.
properties.temporalType	TableTemporalType	The table temporal type.
type	string	Resource type.

DatabaseColumnListResult

Object

A list of database columns.

Name	Type	Description
nextLink	string	Link to retrieve next page of results.
value	DatabaseColumn[]	Array of results.

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

TableTemporalType

Enumeration

The table temporal type.

Value	Description
NonTemporalTable
HistoryTable
SystemVersionedTemporalTable

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Database Columns - List By Database

URI Parameters

Responses

Examples

Filter database columns

Sample request

Sample response

List database columns

Sample request

Sample response

Definitions

ColumnDataType

DatabaseColumn

DatabaseColumnListResult

ErrorAdditionalInfo

ErrorDetail

ErrorResponse

TableTemporalType