SQL Iterate Over All Tables

Question

I am running the following code to extract all relevant rows from all tables that have a particular column. The outer IF is supposed to check if the column exists o

Answer 1

Use Dynamic query inside begin to avoid inner pre-compilation of code, for tables do not contain column 'GCRecord'

USE WS_Live
GO

EXECUTE sp_MSforeachtable 
'
    IF EXISTS(  SELECT * 
                FROM sys.columns
                WHERE columns.Object_ID = Object_ID(''?'')
                AND Name = ''GCRecord''
             ) 
    BEGIN

          EXEC(''          
                  IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM ? WHERE GCRecord IS NOT NULL)
                 BEGIN
                         SELECT * FROM ? WHERE GCRecord IS NOT NULL
                 END
              '')
    END
'