TYPEPROPERTY

Returns information about a data type.

Syntax

Arguments

type

Is the name of the data type.

‘property’

Is the type of information to be returned for the data type. property can be one of the following values:

Property

Description

Value returned

AllowsNull

Data type allows for null values.

1 = True 0 = False NULL = Data type not found.

OwnerId

Owner of the type.

Note: The schema owner is not necessarily the type owner.

Nonnull = The database user ID of the type owner. Default is: 4 NULL = Unsupported type, or type ID is not valid.

Precision

Precision for the data type.

The number of digits or characters. =1 = xml or large value data type NULL = Data type not found.

Scale

Scale for the data type.

The number of decimal places for the data type. NULL = Data type is not numeric or not found.

UsesAnsiTrim

ANSI padding setting was ON when the data type was created.

1 = True 0 = False NULL = Data type not found, or it is not a binary or string data type.

Return types

int

Example

SELECT TYPEPROPERTY(SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) + '.' + name, 'OwnerId') AS owner_id
     , name
     , system_type_id
     , user_type_id, schema_id
  FROM sys.types
 ;

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