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Old 03-26-08, 03:35
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retrieve tablename ???????

I want a query to obtain the tablenames from the databse which contains a particular Column name... Can anyone provide a query for this

i work in db2 and unix(IBM AIX)
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Old 03-26-08, 08:29
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select distinct tabschema,tabname from syscat.columns where colname = ?

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Old 03-26-08, 14:26
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You can remove the DISTINCT keyword because column names are unique for each table identified by a fully qualified table name.
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Old 03-27-08, 05:10
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Thx AR. Ur query worked.
And thx to Stolze for his reply too
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