How to search for a specific string in all columns within all tables of a SQL Server database?

Question

We want to search for a string (ie. \"Hello World\") in all our database that has about 120 tables. We thought about doing a dump like mysql dump but it came out in a weird bak

Answer 1

No it possible and easy to write a script to do this.

Suggestions: I think you have to use some cursors and use some of these objects to write your script

1. sys.databases
2. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES or sys.tables
3. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS or sys.columns

Once you have these things in place, searching Hello World under all columns would be more simple