Hi Dave! Use doble quote for column names ... you should try the following select "null", "default" as "this is default" from sys.columns Rgds Ariel On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 5:31 PM Gotwisner, Dave wrote:

I am trying to query the default and null columns from sys.columns. Both of these are sql key words, so queries either don’t work or return the wrong value.

Doing a “select default from ss.columns;” returns “syntax error, unexpected DEFAULT in: “select default”” error.

Doing a “select null from sys.columns;” returns null for all records, even though it is a Boolean column with true/false values.

I am currently working around this by doing “select *” and pulling out the relevant fields, but, I want to protect against a future release possibly changing the column ordering or changing the number of columns in this table (without also requiring an update to our code).

Is there a way to escape the column names in a way that gives me what I want?

Thanks,

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