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May 14, 2014 19:54
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Stored proc to search an MSSQL DB to find where data is stored
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CREATE PROC SearchAllTables | |
( | |
@SearchStr nvarchar(100) | |
) | |
AS | |
BEGIN | |
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', '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 | |
END |
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