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To seach a string in the entire database

  • August 11, 2010 at 11:14 am

    #227716

    I am looking for a script that i can provide to a user so that he can search for a string the word "alert" in the entire database ( i.e all the tables)

    Please let me know if there is a way to do this without creating a stored procedure

    thanks

  • August 11, 2010 at 11:28 am

    #1205564

    Full text search will work. But you have to create a full text index first.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142547.aspx

  • August 11, 2010 at 12:21 pm

    #1205633

    provide to a user ?!?! every varchar/char/nvarchar/nchar column in the database?

    unless this is for a developer to fix some code, as already suggested, you really need to use full text search, and identify the specific columns you want to search for 'alert'; the knee jerk "search everything" will cause bad things to happen. very bad things.

    there's a thread on the subject to search every/column/table in the database , but it each example uses a huge amount of resources....on production, it took me over 4 minutes to scan every table for the word 'TEST'; that's not an end user tool.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic947537-338-1.aspx

    Lowell

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