search database for a value

 
 

CREATE PROC SearchAllTables  
 (  
      @SearchStr nvarchar(100)  
 )  
 AS  
 BEGIN  
      -- Copyright © 2002 Narayana Vyas Kondreddi. All rights reserved.  
      -- Purpose: To search all columns of all tables for a given search string  
      -- Written by: Narayana Vyas Kondreddi  
      -- Site: http://vyaskn.tripod.com  
      -- Tested on: SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000  
      -- Date modified: 28th July 2002 22:50 GMT  
      CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))  
      SET NOCOUNT ON  
      DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128), @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110)  
      SET @TableName = ''  
      SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')  
      WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL  
      BEGIN  
           SET @ColumnName = ''  
           SET @TableName =   
           (  
                SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME))  
                FROM      INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES  
                WHERE           TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'  
                     AND     QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME) > @TableName  
                     AND     OBJECTPROPERTY(  
                               OBJECT_ID(  
                                    QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)  
                                     ), 'IsMSShipped'  
                                   ) = 0  
           )  
           WHILE (@TableName IS NOT NULL) AND (@ColumnName IS NOT NULL)  
           BEGIN  
                SET @ColumnName =  
                (  
                     SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME))  
                     FROM      INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS  
                     WHERE           TABLE_SCHEMA     = PARSENAME(@TableName, 2)  
                          AND     TABLE_NAME     = PARSENAME(@TableName, 1)  
                          AND     DATA_TYPE IN ('char', 'varchar', 'nchar', 'nvarchar')  
                          AND     QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME) > @ColumnName  
                )  
                IF @ColumnName IS NOT NULL  
                BEGIN  
                     INSERT INTO #Results  
                     EXEC  
                     (  
                          'SELECT ''' + @TableName + '.' + @ColumnName + ''', LEFT(' + @ColumnName + ', 3630)   
                          FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +  
                          ' WHERE ' + @ColumnName + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2  
                     )  
                END  
           END       
      END  
      SELECT ColumnName, ColumnValue FROM #Results  
 END