How To search entire database ?
While browsing the SQL Server newsgroups, every once in a while, I see a request for a script that can search all the columns of all the tables in a given database for a specific keyword. I never took such posts seriously. But then recently, one of my network administrators was troubleshooting a problem with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). MOM uses SQL Server for storing all the computer, alert and performance related information. He narrowed the problem down to something specific, and needed a script that can search all the MOM tables for a specific string. I had no such script handy at that time, so we ended up searching manually.
That's when I really felt the need for such a script and came up with this stored procedure "SearchAllTables". It accepts a search string as input parameter, goes and searches all char, varchar, nchar, nvarchar columns of all tables (only user created tables. System tables are excluded), owned by all users in the current database. Feel free to extend this procedure to search other datatypes.
check out these link
http://vyaskn.tripod.com/search_all_columns_in_all_tables.htm
http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Get_Records_from_ANY_table_in_a_Database_Matching_Specified_Value
That's when I really felt the need for such a script and came up with this stored procedure "SearchAllTables". It accepts a search string as input parameter, goes and searches all char, varchar, nchar, nvarchar columns of all tables (only user created tables. System tables are excluded), owned by all users in the current database. Feel free to extend this procedure to search other datatypes.
check out these link
http://vyaskn.tripod.com/search_all_columns_in_all_tables.htm
http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Get_Records_from_ANY_table_in_a_Database_Matching_Specified_Value
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