How Can I Get Colum Name From Sqlserver?

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Hello,
how can i get only a name of a column in my table from sqlserver?
i used the method GetSchemaTable() but it's return all the properties of a column as well as the name but i just want the ColumnName.
please do you know a method or any way to get only a Columname from sqlserver?

Posted 21-Dec-15 20:15pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-21T20:44:00

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A quick scan of the documentation finds https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqldatareader.getname(v=vs.110).aspx[^].

Posted 21-Dec-15 20:44pm

Richard MacCutchan

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Member 12078351 22-Dec-15 6:29am

Thanks for this Answer.
how can i get a columnname of a specific cell of DataTable from SqlServer.
I explane myself:
i have a value of a cell and i want to get a columnname of this value. So i know that: "reader.GetName()" give me the Name of a column and "reader["columnname"].ToString()" give the value of the Cell. supposed i only have a cell value how can i get the columnName of this cell Value? "ColumnName of reader["columnname"].ToString()" ? thanks for your Help.

Richard MacCutchan 22-Dec-15 7:43am

reader["columnname"]
Well that looks very much like the colum name to me.