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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Search Database for Keywords or across all tables

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*/


CREATE PROC dbo.KeywordSearchDB

(

@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’)

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


 


Save the procedure and call it for testing


exec dbo.KeywordSearchDB @SearchStr = ‘test’



Search Database for Keywords or across all tables

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