Looking into all the tables of a schema

Hi everybody,
Is there any method using which I can search some numbers in all
numeric fields in all the tables of a particular schema ?
This is urgent. Thnaks in advance.
Ratan wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> Is there any method using which I can search some numbers in all
> numeric fields in all the tables of a particular schema ?
>
> This is urgent. Thnaks in advance.
>
Possible? YEs... easy? Not so much... basically you'd have to create a
list of all tables in thedata base, loop through it, then look at all of
the columns in that table, find ones that match one type (you'd have to
know what that is in advance), then build a SQL statement that would
look at those fields for your value and return the results...
-ca
|||Ratan
I think Aaron wrote this script which will give you an idea
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[listTableColumns]
@.table SYSNAME
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @.tid INT,
@.is VARCHAR(32),
@.ii VARCHAR(32),
@.ic VARCHAR(32)
SELECT
@.tid = OBJECT_ID(@.table),
@.is = CAST(IDENT_SEED(@.table) AS VARCHAR(32)),
@.ii = CAST(IDENT_INCR(@.table) AS VARCHAR(32)),
@.ic = CAST(IDENT_CURRENT(@.table) AS VARCHAR(32))
CREATE TABLE #pkeys
(
t_q SYSNAME, t_o SYSNAME, t_n SYSNAME,
cn SYSNAME, ks INT, pn SYSNAME
)
INSERT #pkeys EXEC sp_pkeys @.table
CREATE TABLE #sc
(
cn SYSNAME, formula NVARCHAR(2048)
)
INSERT #sc SELECT
cl.name, sc.text
FROM syscolumns cl
LEFT JOIN syscomments sc
ON cl.id = sc.id AND sc.number = cl.colid
WHERE cl.id = @.tid
SELECT
[COLUMN NAME] = i_s.column_name,
[DATA TYPE] = UPPER(DATA_TYPE)
+ CASE WHEN DATA_TYPE IN ('NUMERIC', 'DECIMAL') THEN
'(' + CAST(NUMERIC_PRECISION AS VARCHAR)
+ ', ' + CAST(NUMERIC_SCALE AS VARCHAR) + ')'
ELSE '' END
+ CASE COLUMNPROPERTY(@.tid, COLUMN_NAME, 'IsIdentity')
WHEN 1 THEN
' IDENTITY (' + @.is + ', ' + @.ii + ')' ELSE '' END
+ CASE RIGHT(DATA_TYPE, 4) WHEN 'CHAR' THEN
' ('+CAST(CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH AS VARCHAR)+')' ELSE '' END
+ CASE IS_NULLABLE WHEN 'No' THEN ' NOT ' ELSE ' ' END
+ 'NULL' + COALESCE(' DEFAULT ' + SUBSTRING(COLUMN_DEFAULT,
2, LEN(COLUMN_DEFAULT)-2), ''),
[CURRENT IDENTITY] = CASE COLUMNPROPERTY(@.tid, COLUMN_NAME, 'IsIdentity')
WHEN 1 THEN @.ic ELSE '' END,
[FORMULA] = CASE COLUMNPROPERTY(@.tid, COLUMN_NAME, 'IsComputed')
WHEN 1 THEN (SELECT SUBSTRING(formula, 2, len(formula)-2)
FROM #sc WHERE cn=i_s.column_name)
ELSE '' END,
[PRIMARY KEY?] = CASE WHEN pk.cn IS NOT NULL THEN 'Yes' ELSE '' END,
[COLUMN DESCRIPTION] = COALESCE(s.value, '')
FROM
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS i_s
LEFT OUTER JOIN
#pkeys pk
ON
pk.cn = i_s.column_name
LEFT OUTER JOIN
sysproperties s
ON
s.id = OBJECT_ID(i_s.TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+i_s.TABLE_NAME)
AND s.smallid = i_s.ORDINAL_POSITION
AND s.name = 'MS_Description'
WHERE
i_s.TABLE_NAME = @.table
ORDER BY
i_s.ORDINAL_POSITION
DROP TABLE #pkeys
DROP TABLE #sc
END
GO
Sample usage:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[fakeTable]
(
[id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
[dt] [smalldatetime] NOT NULL DEFAULT (getdate()),
[body] [varchar] (255) NOT NULL DEFAULT (''),
[email] [varchar] (255) NULL,
[y] AS (datepart(year,[dt]))
)
GO
EXEC listTableColumns 'faketable'
DROP TABLE fakeTable
"Ratan" <ratan.nitrkl@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everybody,
> Is there any method using which I can search some numbers in all
> numeric fields in all the tables of a particular schema ?
>
> This is urgent. Thnaks in advance.
>