posted 7/3/2013 by Raghav Khunger
If you want to search a string|text in all the tables, rows, columns below script will help you:
DECLARE @SearchText VARCHAR(100) , @TableName SYSNAME , @TableID INT , @ColumnName SYSNAME , @Command VARCHAR(2000) SET @SearchText = 'product' DECLARE SearchCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name , object_id FROM sys.objects WHERE type = 'U' OPEN SearchCursor FETCH NEXT FROM SearchCursor INTO @TableName, @TableID WHILE ( @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 ) BEGIN DECLARE ColumnsCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name FROM sys.columns WHERE object_id = @TableID AND system_type_id IN ( 167, 175, 231, 239 ) -- VARCHAR, CHAR, NVARCHAR, NCHAR OPEN ColumnsCursor FETCH NEXT FROM ColumnsCursor INTO @ColumnName WHILE ( @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 ) BEGIN SET @Command = 'IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM ' + @TableName + ' WHERE [' + @ColumnName + '] LIKE ''%' + @SearchText + '%'') PRINT ''' + @TableName + ', ' + @ColumnName + '''' EXECUTE(@Command) FETCH NEXT FROM ColumnsCursor INTO @ColumnName END CLOSE ColumnsCursor DEALLOCATE ColumnsCursor FETCH NEXT FROM SearchCursor INTO @TableName, @TableID END CLOSE SearchCursor DEALLOCATE SearchCursor
You just need to set "SearchText" variable and run the script to get your results.
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