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Tip: Find Out the Column Name Using the COL_NAME() Function

Tip: Find Out the Column Name Using the COL_NAME() Function

You can use the following snippet to quickly find out a column’s name.

COL_NAME accepts two parameters: TableID and the ordinal position.

SELECT COL_NAME(object_id('waybill'),2) AS col_name

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