Comments on: SQL SERVER – Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server

By: Imran Mohammed

Imran Mohammed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:02:15 +0000

@Sandya

Exec sp_depends ‘table_name’

Result set returned, will contain all dependencies, like which other tables, views, stored procedure depend on this table

~IM

By: sandya

sandya — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:33:05 +0000

Can we find in all the stored procedures where the table is used?
If we alter the table and add a column, and want to see where all the table is used in the stored procedures and functions.
How do we achieve that.

By: Imran Mohammed

Imran Mohammed — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:19:51 +0000

@Praveen

– Either make this a stored procedure or change value of @Column_Name,

Code Starts here,

Declare @Column_Name sysname
Set @Column_Name = ‘eid’

Declare @temp_variable table ([Database Name] sysname, [Schema Name] sysname, [Table Name] sysname, [Column Name] sysname , [Ordinal Position]Int, [Is Null] varchar(3), [Data type] varchar(50), [Length] int , [Precision] Int, [Scale] Int)

Declare @Sqlcmd1 nvarchar(4000)

Set @Sqlcmd1 =
‘EXEC sp_msforeachdb
”
USE ?
Select TABLE_CATALOG [Database Name]
,TABLE_SCHEMA [Schema Name]
,TABLE_NAME [Table Name]
,COLUMN_NAME [Column Name]
,ORDINAL_POSITION [Ordinal Position]
,IS_NULLABLE [Is Null]
,DATA_TYPE [Data Type]
,CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH [Lenth]
,NUMERIC_PRECISION [Precision]
,NUMERIC_SCALE [Scale]
From Information_Schema.columns
Where COLUMN_NAME = ””’+@Column_Name+””””

Insert into @temp_variable Exec Sp_ExecuteSQL @Sqlcmd1

Select * from @temp_variable

~ IM.

By: praveen

praveen — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:49:31 +0000

Is there a way to query an entire sql server looking for a certain column? am trying to create an application where the users can search our entire sql server by a column name.I want the query to list the table name,database name,column name,column data type.
Any ideas or sample code will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much..

By: Rajpreeti

Rajpreeti — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:43:39 +0000

Your articles are really very conducive to solve my problems.

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Wed, 21 May 2008 04:20:58 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:15:08 +0000

How about a query that writes queries? Using sysdatabases table in the MASTER database you can write a query that looks for a table name in the sysobjects table in each database. In my case I’m looking for a ‘Folders’ table.

Running this query…

USE MASTER; SELECT ‘USE ‘ + name + ‘; SELECT ”’ + name + ”’ as DBName, name as TableName FROM sysobjects where name like ”Folders”’ FROM sysdatabases WHERE dbid > 5 ORDER BY dbid

You get these queries…

USE Northwind; SELECT ‘Northwind’ as DBName, name as TableName FROM sysobjects where name like ‘Folders’
USE Q_SanJoaquin; SELECT ‘Q_SanJoaquin’ as DBName, name as TableName FROM sysobjects where name like ‘Folders’
USE ClerkConv; SELECT ‘ClerkConv’ as DBName, name as TableName FROM sysobjects where name like ‘Folders’
USE QuestysEnt; SELECT ‘QuestysEnt’ as DBName, name as TableName FROM sysobjects where name like ‘Folders’
USE Q_Police; SELECT ‘Q_Police’ as DBName, name as TableName FROM sysobjects where name like ‘Folders’

And running those queries, you get this….

DBName TableName
——— ——————————————————————————————————————————–

(0 row(s) affected)

DBName TableName
———— ——————————————————————————————————————————–
Q_SanJoaquin Folders

(1 row(s) affected)

DBName TableName
——— ——————————————————————————————————————————–

(0 row(s) affected)

DBName TableName
———- ——————————————————————————————————————————–
QuestysEnt Folders

(1 row(s) affected)

DBName TableName
——– ——————————————————————————————————————————–
Q_Police Folders

(1 row(s) affected)

By: SQL SERVER - Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server - Part 2 Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:48 +0000

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By: Simon Worth

Simon Worth — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:06:11 +0000

Or you could built in functionality that SQL Server provides and use 1 line of code

sp_msforeachdb “SELECT ‘?’ DatabaseName, Name FROM ?.sys.Tables WHERE Name LIKE ‘%address%’”

If you did indeed want to keep the results in a table you could do that too

CREATE TABLE #TableNameResults (DatabaseName VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, TableName VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL)
INSERT INTO #TableNameResults EXEC sp_msforeachdb “SELECT ‘?’ DatabaseName, Name FROM ?.sys.Tables WHERE Name LIKE ‘%address%’”

SELECT * FROM #TableNameResults

DROP TABLE #TableNameResults