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SearchAllTables.sql

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
 
GO