For this answer, where do I input the string I want to search for? In this case, 'john-wick'
The goal is to search which table and which column stored the data called 'john-wick'
Am using DBeaver to access the SQL Server database
CREATE PROC [dbo].[SearchAllTablesByRecord]
(
@SearchStr NVARCHAR(100)
)
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @TableName NVARCHAR(256), @SearchStr2 NVARCHAR(110)
DECLARE @ColumnList NVARCHAR(2048), @ColumnJoin NVARCHAR(2048)
SET @TableName = ''
SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')
WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
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
)
PRINT @TableName -- For progress monitoring
SET @ColumnList =
(
SELECT STRING_AGG(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')
)
SET @ColumnJoin = REPLACE(@ColumnList,',','+')
IF @ColumnList <> ''
EXEC
(
'SELECT ''' + @TableName + ''' AS [Table],' + @ColumnList + '
INTO #Results
FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +
' WHERE ' + @ColumnJoin + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2 + '
IF @@ROWCOUNT > 0 SELECT * FROM #Results'
)
END
END