Chris Barba

How to get a list of all identity columns in a database

Here is some code to get a list of identity columns in database.

select  so.name as TableName,  + o.list as IdentityColumnName 
from    sysobjects so
cross apply
    (SELECT 
        column_name
         + 
           case when exists ( 
        select id from syscolumns
        where object_name(id)=so.name
        and name=column_name
        and columnproperty(id,name,'IsIdentity') = 1 
        ) then
        ''
        end + ' '
     from information_schema.columns where table_name = so.name
    ) o (list)
where   xtype = 'U'
AND o.list is not null
AND name    NOT IN ('dtproperties')

posted @ Monday, November 11, 2013 4:14 PM