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Created August 1, 2013 22:59
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Search MySQL schema for a string
#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
$usage = array(
'min_args' => '5',
'message' => "$argv[0] --host=example.com --schema=MyDB --user=user_name [--pass=\"secret\"] --search=\"any string\""
);
if( $argc < $usage['min_args'] ){
exit("{$usage['message']}\n");
}
foreach( $argv as $arg ){
$arg_parts = split('=', $arg);
if( count($arg_parts) == 2 ){
$arg_name = ltrim($arg_parts[0], '-');
$arg_value = $arg_parts[1];
$$arg_name = $arg_value;
}
}
if( !isset($pass) ){
echo "Enter password:";
`stty -echo`;
$pass = trim(fgets(STDIN));
`stty echo`;
echo "\n";
}
if( !isset($host) || !isset($user) || !isset($pass) || !isset($schema) || !isset($search) ){
exit('Unknown failure');
}else{
$column_query = "
select t.table_name, c.column_name
from information_schema.columns c
join information_schema.tables t on t.table_name = c.table_name
join information_schema.schemata s on s.schema_name = t.table_schema
where s.schema_name = '$schema'
and (
c.data_type like '%text'
or c.data_type like '%char'
or c.data_type like '%blog'
)
";
$mysqli = new mysqli($host, $user, $pass);
if( $mysqli->connect_errno ){
exit("Failed to connect to MySQL: ({$mysqli->connect_errno}) {$mysqli->connect_error}");
}
echo "Connected to MySQL: {$mysqli->host_info}\n";
$column_res = $mysqli->query($column_query);
echo "Searching...\n";
if( $column_res->num_rows == 0 ){
echo "No columns found in '$schema' with types *text, *char or *blob\n";
}else{
while( $row = $column_res->fetch_assoc() ){
$data_query = "select {$row['column_name']} from {$schema}.{$row['table_name']} where {$row['column_name']} like '%{$mysqli->escape_string($search)}%'";
if( $data_res = $mysqli->query($data_query) ){
if( $data_res->num_rows > 0 ){
echo "\t'$search' found in [{$row['table_name']}].[{$row['column_name']}]\n";
flush();
}
}
}
}
$mysqli->close();
}
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I just found this feature in MySQL Workbench 6.0!!!
It even supports searching using LIKE.

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