If you have an existing table, but you don't remember what are the columns defined in the view, you can use the "sp_columns" stored procedure to get a list of all columns of the specified view. The following tutorial script shows you a good example:

EXEC SP_COLUMNS ggl_links_top;

GO

TABLE_OWNER TABLE_NAME COLUMN_NAME TYPE_NAME LENGTH

----------- ------------- ----------- --------- ------

dbo  ggl_links_top id  int  4  

dbo  ggl_links_top counts int  4  

dbo  ggl_links_top url  varchar 80

(3 row(s) affected)

The "sp_columns" stored procedure returns a long list of properties for each column of the specified view.