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Alex Ratcliffe asked

Description value in table designer

How can I get the description value displayed in a table column in table designer.

sql-serverssmstable-designer
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Kev Riley answered

If you mean how do you get the value of 'Description' that you have entered via the Table Designer, then look in the system view sys.extended_properties.

major_id will match against the object_id from sys.columns of the column you are interested in

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Rick Strahl has the answers on this link:

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/237339.aspx

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