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Is there an easy way to build a <cfquery> that will retrieve a list of the field names of a given table? If it matters, dbtype="ODBC"

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Is there an easy way to build a <cfquery> that will retrieve a list of the field names of a given table? If it matters, dbtype="ODBC"

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run a query on the table that you know will produce at least one record (& limit it to one record with maxrows="1" to save retrieving more than you need) then you can reference myQuery.columns which is a collection of the column names
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run a query on the table that you know will produce at least one record (& limit it to one record with maxrows="1" to save retrieving more than you need) then you can reference myQuery.columns which is a collection of the column names
This sounds like a good approach, except that I believe "myQuery.columnList" is the variable that holds the list of column names.
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