Re: Finding data type for a column

Jedi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to find out the data type of an column from within my
> applicaton.
> What is the ODBC or SQL statment to do that? For example, I have a table
> called
> Students and I want to know what data type the column name Address
> belongs to.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments
>
> Dennis
>
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> Georgia Institute of Technology
> School of Electrical Engineering, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
> E-MAIL: jedi_at_eecom.gatech.edu

use master (or sybsystemprocs)

sp_helptext sp_help

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use the same code that Sybase uses to do this which is found in
the sp_help procedure.

Mike