Search All Tables And Replace
Jul 23, 2005
I'm looking for a stored procedure (or query) to search an entire
database for a specific string value and replace it with another. I'm
sure I saw an SP for this a while back by someone, but cannot find it
again. The SP took the search string and replace string as parameters
and did the rest. Any ideas where I can find this ?
Bear in mind, the idea is that this can be re-used and run on any
database, so it would have to find all tables and search through those.
Ta
Ryan
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Mar 15, 2007
Hello Everyone,
Is there a way to search all the tables in a database for a value that is found in a specific column? Another problem is that although this specific column will be found in most of the tables in the database, it has a different two or three digit prefix in the column name for each table.
I think the logic will go something like this...
As the script jumps from table to table, it should first look for a column whose name ends with ***ITM. If it does not find a column with ***ITM it should move on to the next table. If it does, then search the ***ITM column for my value. If it does not find my value, then move to the next table. But if it does, change my value to a new value.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all...
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Aug 4, 2006
i like to write a code that street_name field look up in table one for 'road' and replace it for 'rd'.
any approaches ?
table1
abr description
---- ------------
ln lane
rd road
ave avenue
table2
street_name
-------------
apple road
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Feb 1, 2008
i have data in a table which is in format #12345;#22211;#12112; and so on... its a long string.
i want to replace only the numbers using nchar() function.
in above example i want to replace 12345, 22211, 12112 with nchar(12345), nchar(22211), nchar(12112).
i have managed to do this using loop and substring function. but now i have performance issue.
63K records will take many hours to update. i have to do following steps:
1. read record from table.
2. replace numbers with nchar() function.
3. update the same table with new text.
i have to do this using a stored procedure.
i am looking for some quick way to do this. any idea?
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Aug 30, 2007
I have a notes table in which I have 10,000 rows. Unfortunately some of the notes are compressed together as one long string. I can fix the issue if I can do a search and replace on ';' and replace with '; ' is there a way to do this?
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Jul 6, 2007
I have a question about the best method of going about doing this.
I have a records table which stores visitor information from IISlogs (dbo.records)
I have added IP tables to try and resolve where the visitors are from. They are labeled 'ip4_##' where ## is the first section of the ip.. so if my IP was 24.150.66.80 I would need to look in table ip4_24 and inside there look for 150 in column B and then 66 in column C. From that it will say which country is attached, that way I can update the countrycode in the dbo.records.
I am not sure how to do this search, so any ideas would be great.
Thanks in advance
* Table structre for the ip_## tables are
COLUMN 'b' int (represents the 2nd section of an IP)
COLUMN 'c' int (represents the third section of an IP)
COLUMN 'country' int
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Nov 29, 2004
I am developing a complex database-driven application with SQL Server 2000. My database has dozens of stored procedures, and whenever I want to rename a database field, I have to go through my stored procedures, finding where that field is used. This is a laborious and error-prone process, even when I look up depenencies.
Is there an easier way to work stored procedure code – some tool to search/replace the text perhaps?
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Apr 21, 2006
I found a search-and-replace program for SQL server that works GREAT, but I have a list of about 200 words to search for, with corresponding replacements. Rather than editing the code below for *each* word and running it 200 separate times, I'd like to iterate through the list, but my MS-SQL programming skills are...light (to say the least). Anyone have any ideas how I can create a list or hash-type variable and use the code to loop through and do the replacements all at once?
/*
*
* Search & Replace
*
* Use Ctrl+Shift+M to replace template values
*
*/
set xact_abort on
begin tran
declare @otxt varchar(1000)
set @otxt = '<string1, text, text to be replaced>'
declare @ntxt varchar(1000)
set @ntxt = '<string2, text, replacing text>'
declare @txtlen int
set @txtlen = len(@otxt)
declare @ptr binary(16)
declare @pos int
declare @id int
declare curs cursor local fast_forward
for
select
id,
textptr(<field_name, sysname, target text field>),
charindex(@otxt, <field_name, sysname, target text field>)-1
from
<table_name, sysname, target table>
where
<field_name, sysname, target text field>
like
'%' + @otxt +'%'
open curs
fetch next from curs into @id, @ptr, @pos
while @@fetch_status = 0
begin
print 'Text found in row id=' + cast(@id as varchar) + ' at pos=' + cast(@pos as varchar)
updatetext <table_name, sysname, target table> .<field_name, sysname, target text field> @ptr @pos @txtlen @ntxt
fetch next from curs into @id, @ptr, @pos
end
close curs
deallocate curs
commit tran
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Oct 26, 2007
Hi All,
I am experiencing problem to select text wich has carriage return in my search functionality.
I have two tables called @searchwordTable and @DataTable.
@searchWordTable will have search criteria words(data type is varchar) and @DataTable will titles(data type is ntext) need to be searched. Some of titles have carriage return,line feed and tab characters. I am preseting here script to reproduce my problem.
DECLARE @searchwordTable TABLE
(
searchword VARCHAR(MAX)
)
INSERT INTO @searchwordTable (searchword) VALUES('carriage long description')
DECLARE @DataTable TABLE
(
title ntext
)
INSERT INTO @DataTable (title) values('carriage long description'+char(13)+char(10)+'carriagelong')
SELECT * FROM @DataTable dTable,@searchwordTable srcWrdTable
WHERE '% ' + REPLACE(CAST(dTable.title AS VARCHAR(MAX)),char(13),'') + ' %' like '% ' + srcWrdTable.searchword + ' %'
I am expecting the above select statement should select title from @DataTable but not getting .I am not understanding what is going wrong with above select.
Thanks in Advance.
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Oct 4, 2007
Hey guys,
In my DB i have hundreds on queries setup for all different reporting purposes..
We have just changed they way our system handles costing and are moving from a average cost function to a standard cost function.. This in turns, means that i need to replace any reports where i use the average cost field and replace it with the standard cost field.
Is it possible, that i can do a full search and replace over all my queries, looking for a specific field name and replacing it with something else.
I am dreading the idea of opening each individual queries and checking if it exists..
If anyone knows of software or someway to write a SP to accomadate this, please let me know. I would be most grateful.
Thanks
Scotty
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Aug 31, 2007
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to do the search and replace in multiple stored procedures using SQL 2005 Management Studio?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Sep 22, 2006
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
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Sep 26, 2006
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
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Mar 8, 2007
Hi SSIS Gurus,
Coild anybody halp me, how to achive search and replace in the Expressions (Transformation Editor) or in SQL Query box?
If this functionality isn't presented, what is preffered woraround to achieve it?
I have a lot of transformations (about 100) in the derived column task and its too difficult to find transformation what i need.
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Aug 8, 2006
I've got an nvarchar(max) column that I need to transform with some simple text processing: insert some markup at the very beginning, and insert some markup just before a particular regular expression is matched (or at the end, if no match is found).
Since the SSIS expression language doesn't support anything like this, is a Script Component the only way to go? Does Visual Basic .NET provide regular expression matching?
Thanks!
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Jan 9, 2006
#1 This stored procedure can be used to search and replace substring in the char, nchar, varchar and nvarchar columns in all tables in the current database. You should pass the text value to search and the text value to replace. So, to replace all char, nchar, varchar and nvarchar columns which contain the substring 'John' with the substring 'Bill', you can use the following (in comparison with the SetTbColValues stored procedure, this stored procedure replace only substring, not the entire column's value):
EXEC replace_substring @search_value = 'John', @replace_value = 'Bill'
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Feb 6, 2008
Hi guys,
I am looking for some syntax to help me with a traditional search/replace style requirement. I am wanting to examine the contents of one column and populate another.
similar to this SQL case statement
CASE ProductLine
WHEN 'R1' THEN 'Road'
WHEN 'M1' THEN 'Mountain'
WHEN 'T1' THEN 'Touring'
WHEN 'S2' THEN 'Other sale items'
ELSE 'Not for sale'
END,
the twist is that R1, M1 etc. can appear anywhere in the ProductLine column.
thanks for any assistance you can provide.
regards,
Chris
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Apr 29, 2008
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Oct 13, 2004
i have 13 table in my sql server nd they have no relation
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Aug 26, 2004
I would like to do a key word search in a small sql server db (30Mo) (search in all tables).
I opted to export the db and perform this search.
The proble is :
when we use export DTS with Excel as a source, each table is put in a tab (in the Excel document).
when we use a text file as a source. I have the chose to select only one table (to all tables).
A solution for this
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Nov 13, 2007
Hi all
my question is how to search into whole tables into specific database and result be as following
TableName ColumnName WordMatching
kindly any suggest or help i will be appreciated
Thanks
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Jun 25, 2007
i have two tables,
Opportunity
[OpporID] [numeric](18, 0) IDENTITY (1000, 1) NOT NULL ,
[OpportunityID] [varchar] (16) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL ,
[OpportunityTypeID] [numeric](10, 0) NOT NULL ,
[SLABased] [int] NOT NULL ,
[LoginID] [nvarchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL ,
[DateCreated] [datetime] NOT NULL ,
[AccountID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[GeographyID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[VerticalID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[BDMID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[Probability] [int] NOT NULL ,
[PASStatus] [int] NULL ,
[InsertedDate] [datetime] NULL ,
[InsertedBy] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[UpdatedDate] [datetime] NULL ,
[UpdatedBy] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[UpdatedFlag] [int] NULL
and SKILL
[SkillNo] [numeric](18, 0) IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[OpportunityID] [numeric](18, 0) NOT NULL ,
[OrderId] [numeric](18, 0) NOT NULL ,
[PracticeID] [int] NULL ,
[SkillID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[NoOfPeople] [int] NOT NULL ,
[Clientinterview] [int] NOT NULL ,
[Location] [int] NOT NULL ,
[JDAttached] [int] NOT NULL ,
[JDFilePath] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[Status] [int] NULL ,
[Experience] [int] NULL ,
[InsertedDate] [datetime] NULL ,
[InsertedBy] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL ,
[UpdatedDate] [datetime] NULL ,
[UpdatedBy] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[UpdatedFlag] [int] NULL ,
[GeoLocation] [int] NULL
)
i want to make a stored procedure for custom search on these two tables
with the following fields given to the user as an option to make his
choice..
from opportunity table -
OpportunityTypeID,SLABased,AccountID ,
GeographyID,
VerticalID,
BDMID,
Probability
and from skill table
SkillID, Location, GeoLocation
and return all the fields of opportunity table.
Can some make the stored procedure for me..
thanks a lot.
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Nov 10, 2005
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Feb 5, 2008
How to search all columns of all tables for a keyword?:o
that in MS sql
thanks in advance..
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Dec 19, 2014
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Feb 14, 2006
Hi,
I want to search through 3 tables (TableB, TableC, TableD) to find
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where c.hdr_ctl_nbr not exists (select hdr_ctl_nbr from TableB)
group by c.hdr_ctl_nbr
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Jul 23, 2005
I'm working on search query for a troubleticket system.There are two tables I want to search, the description in the tickets tableand the corresponding notes in the notes table. The problem is there is aone to many relationship between the tickets (one) and the notes (many)tables.I only need the ticket number of any ticket that finds the search string inthe description or any of the corresponding notes.
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Mar 7, 2008
Hello,
Is it possible to search in two tables, let's say table # 1 in specific field e.g. (age). If that field is empty then retrieve the data from table #1, if not retrieve the data from table # 2.
Is it possible to do it by using SQL Stored Procedure??
Thank you
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May 5, 2004
Hi there,
I am currently seaching a db for all tables that have the same column name, for example, 'qdate'. Can anyone let me know how I can write a script that will search a db for all tables with this column name 'qdate'?
Thanks for your help!!!!!!
From
NewtoSql
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I found a few 'SearchAllTables' scripts out there to find a value in any table/column/row of any Database.
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how I could accomplish this?
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