Thursday, September 11, 2014

Search for a specific text in entire database

USE [AIRLINES]
GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE PROC [dbo].[SearchTables]
(
     @SearchStr nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN

DECLARE @Results TABLE(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

--To execute the above Stored Procedure
DECLARE @return_value int
EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[SearchTables]
@SearchStr = N'SAIKRISHNA'
SELECT 'Return Value' = @return_value

1 comment:

  1. Or you can just use a FREE tool:
    http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-search/

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