CREATE PROC SearchAllTables
(
 @SearchStr nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN
 -- Copyright © 2002 Narayana Vyas Kondreddi. All rights reserved.
 -- Purpose: To search all columns of all tables for a given search string
 -- Written by: Narayana Vyas Kondreddi
 -- Site: http://vyaskn.tripod.com
 -- Tested on: SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000
 -- Date modified: 28th July 2002 22:50 GMT
 CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))
 SET NOCOUNT ON
 DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128), @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110)
 SET  @TableName = ''
 SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')
 WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL
 BEGIN
  SET @ColumnName = ''
  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
  )
  WHILE (@TableName IS NOT NULL) AND (@ColumnName IS NOT NULL)
  BEGIN
   SET @ColumnName =
   (
    SELECT MIN(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')
     AND
 QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME) > @ColumnName
   )
 
   IF @ColumnName IS NOT NULL
   BEGIN
    INSERT INTO #Results
    EXEC
    (
     'SELECT ''' + @TableName + '.' + @ColumnName + ''', LEFT(' + @ColumnName + ', 3630)
     FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +
     ' WHERE ' + @ColumnName + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2
    )
   END
  END
 
 END
 SELECT ColumnName, ColumnValue FROM #Results
END
--To search all columns of all tables in Pubs database for the keyword "Computer"
EXEC SearchAllTables 'Computer'
GO