对于MySQL，使用

SELECT column_name 
FROM information_schema.columns 
WHERE 
table_schema = 'Schema' AND table_name = 'Table_Name'

对于SQL Server 2008，我们可以使用information_schema。列用于获取列信息

SELECT *
FROM   information_schema.columns
WHERE  table_name = 'Table_Name'
ORDER  BY ordinal_position  

答案在这里:http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-list-fields.php 在你的情况下，我会使用以下代码:

$result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM sometable");
if (!$result) {
    echo 'Could not run query: ' . mysql_error();
    exit;
}
$fields = array();
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
        $fields[] = $row['Field'];
    }
}

您可以运行此查询

SELECT t.name AS table_name,
SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name,
c.name AS column_name
FROM sys.tables AS t
INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID
WHERE c.name LIKE '%%' --if you want to find specific column write here 
ORDER BY schema_name, table_name;

遇到这个问题，寻找访问Teradata上的列名，所以我将添加他们的SQL“味道”的答案:

SELECT ColumnName
FROM DBC.Columns
WHERE DatabaseName='DBASE_NAME'
AND TableName='TABLE_NAME';

信息存储在DBC dbase中。

获取数据类型有点复杂: 使用teradata系统表获取列类型

你也可以试试这个，但它可能比你需要的信息更多:

sp_columns TABLE_NAME