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Using ANSI SQL

Some time ago I was demonstrating to a colleague how to locate databases containing a column with a specific name and type. I was using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views in order to find the column instances. I was asked, “Are you using INFORMATION_SCHMA? Isn’t that deprecated?” My response was simple…this is an ANSI standard, and it works accurately and efficiently. Years […]