Find a word in entire database

SQL server 2000
Hi
I want to search a field value in entire database.
Example: Search for word "Ontario" in all rows of all tables in the
database. I do not want to search column_names but basically all rows in all
columns of the database for a particular word.
Thanks
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"db" <db@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> SQL server 2000
> Hi
> I want to search a field value in entire database.
> Example: Search for word "Ontario" in all rows of all tables in the
> database. I do not want to search column_names but basically all rows in
> all
> columns of the database for a particular word.
> Thanks
> ontario, canada|||If you need to do rather convoluted search (e.g. with regular expressions),
you could also consider dump everything out to files and search files for
your string. Probably more troublesome than it's worth, but could be useful
for certain scenarios.
Linchi
"db" wrote:
> SQL server 2000
> Hi
> I want to search a field value in entire database.
> Example: Search for word "Ontario" in all rows of all tables in the
> database. I do not want to search column_names but basically all rows in all
> columns of the database for a particular word.
> Thanks
> ontario, canada|||IIRC ApexSQL Edit has this functionality built in. Pretty slick.
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"db" <db@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> SQL server 2000
> Hi
> I want to search a field value in entire database.
> Example: Search for word "Ontario" in all rows of all tables in the
> database. I do not want to search column_names but basically all rows in
> all
> columns of the database for a particular word.
> Thanks
> ontario, canada