Find PRIMARY KEYs of a Table from C#

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Is there a way to find programmatically the PRIMARY KEYs of a table in C#?
Is it done by some additional queries? Thanks :)

Posted 26-Oct-11 21:16pm

ShacharK

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Amir Mahfoozi 29-Oct-11 7:31am

When you mention C# it means that you have used Entity Framework or another ORM to access data. so you may find your answer by searching documents of your ORM provider. But if you are looking for a SQL command so mentioning C# is not logical. Don't you think so ?

ShacharK 29-Oct-11 9:25am

Well, I was hoping that there was a way to find them using the SqlClient interfaces in C# (For example, I'm using it to get the table structures, columns and column types... So I was hoping (initially) that maybe I could use this interface to extract more data about the tables.

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2011-10-26T21:20:00

Solution 1

Read this : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/0d331a26-6cd3-42ca-8acb-13648cea19fb/[^]

Posted 26-Oct-11 21:20pm

Mehdi Gholam

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Abhinav S 27-Oct-11 3:22am

Should be useful to the OP. 5.

Mehdi Gholam 27-Oct-11 3:33am

Yep, thanks.

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2011-10-26T21:22:00

Solution 2

Try out Find Primary Key or ID column of Table in SQL Server 2000/2005[^].

Posted 26-Oct-11 21:22pm

Abhinav S

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Mehdi Gholam 27-Oct-11 3:32am

5'ed

Abhinav S 27-Oct-11 3:37am

Thank you.

P.Salini · Answer 3 · 2011-10-26T21:36:00

Solution 4

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/09/04/sql-server-2005-find-tables-with-primary-key-constraint-in-database/[^]

Posted 26-Oct-11 21:36pm

P.Salini

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Amir Mahfoozi 29-Oct-11 7:27am

+5

P.Salini 29-Oct-11 7:52am

Thank You

member60 · Answer 4 · 2011-10-26T21:22:00

Solution 3

have a look at:Find Primary Key or ID column of Table in SQL Server 2000/2005

Posted 26-Oct-11 21:22pm

member60

Updated 26-Oct-11 21:37pm

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