Search Whole database sample stored procedure

 

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-- 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

-- Updated and tested by Tim Gaunt

-- http://www.thesitedoctor.co.uk

-- http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/2010/02/19/Search+Every+Table+And+Field+In+A+SQL+Server+Database+Updated.aspx

-- Tested on: SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2010

-- Date modified: 03rd March 2011 19:00 GMT

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 DECLARE @SearchStr nvarchar(100)

SET @SearchStr = '9D2BAE6F-062B-4A86-8A92-B64F2AE46CAA'

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 ( 'uniqueidentifier')

                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

 

DROP TABLE #Results