C# - Extract objects from SQL Command
Problem: How can I extract all objects mentioned in a SQL Command using C#? Solution: It is not easy to extract object names from an SQL command since they may be written in different ways (with/without schema , databases name included ...) But there are many option to extract objects from an SQL query that you can try: Using Regular expressions, As example: You have to search for the words located after the following keywords: TRUNCATE TABLE FROM UPDATE JOIN The following code is a C# example: Regex regex = new Regex ( @"\bJOIN\s+(?<Retrieve>[a-zA-Z\._\d\[\]]+)\b|\bFROM\s+(?<Retrieve>[a-zA-Z\._\d\[\]]+)\b|\bUPDATE\s+(?<Update>[a-zA-Z\._\d]+)\b|\bINSERT\s+(?:\bINTO\b)?\s+(?<Insert>[a-zA-Z\._\d]+)\b|\bTRUNCATE\s+TABLE\s+(?<Delete>[a-zA-Z\._\d]+)\b|\bDELETE\s+(?:\bFROM\b)?\s+(?<Delete>[a-zA-Z\._\d]+)\b" ); var obj = regex . Matches ( sql ); foreach ( Match m in obj ) { Console . WriteLine ( m . ToStri
