Find a table by the name in SQL Server database

Query below finds tables with specific name in all schemas in a database. In this case it searches for 'customer' table.

Query

select schema_name(t.schema_id) as schema_name,
       t.name as table_name
from sys.tables t
where t.name = 'customer'
order by schema_name,
         table_name;

Columns

  • schema_name - name of schema table was found in
  • table_name - name of table (redundant as it should be exactly the same as provided)

Rows

  • One row represents a table
  • Scope of rows: all found tables
  • Ordered by schema name

Notes

  1. There migh be more tables than one because different schemas in a database can have tables with the same names

Sample results