Search All Tables

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