List of columns in a table from SYBASE

Monday, January 21, 2013 sybase , table 0 Comments

I recently came across a need to create a file which has the columns of a table in sybase.Then I thought it would be better that we write a script which will fetch the column details by taking table name as an argument and store the output in a text file.Below is a simple perl script to do it.

As you can see help text is also there.So i guess i don't need to explain it.

#!/usr/bin/perl
######################################
#This is the script to list all the
#columns in the table.table names
#should be given as arguments to the
#script.
#example:
#script_name table_name_1 table_name_2 ...so on
######################################
use strict;
use warnings;
my $result;
unlink("output.txt");
foreach(@ARGV)
{
$result = qx{isql -U<user_name> -P<password> -D<dbname> <<EOF
set nocount on
SELECT sc.name FROM syscolumns sc INNER JOIN sysobjects so ON sc.id = so.id WHERE so.name = '$_'
go
exit
EOF
};
my @lines = split /\s+\n/, $result;
splice @lines,0,2;
$_=~s/ //g foreach @lines;
my $outfile  = "output.txt";
open (OUTFILE, ">>$outfile") || die "ERROR: opening $outfile\n";
print OUTFILE "$_\n------------\n".join "\n",@lines;
print OUTFILE "\n\n";
}
close OUTFILE;
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