> Look into the INFORMATION SCHEMA views in SQL Books Online for a
> starting point.

Excellent tip!  Thanks.  With the help provided by everyone who
replied, I came up with the following:

Query to get the primary key(s) for a table

  sp_pkeys @table_name='<table_name>'

Query to get the column names for a table

  sp_columns @table_name='<table_name>'

Query to get the constraints on the columns of the table

  SELECT 
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE.COLUMN_NAME,
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE.CONSTRAINT_NAME,
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CHECK_CONSTRAINTS.CHECK_CLAUSE
  FROM 
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE
  INNER JOIN
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CHECK_CONSTRAINTS ON 
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CHECK_CONSTRAINTS.CONSTRAINT_NAME = 
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE.CONSTRAINT_NAME
  WHERE 
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE.TABLE_NAME = 
  N'<table_name>'
  

thnx,
Chris

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