Search of table names

Question

I use the following to search for strings in my stored procedures:

use DBname
SELECT Name
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE \'%xxx%\'
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Answer 1

If you want to look in all tables in all Databases server-wide and get output you can make use of the undocumented sp_MSforeachdb procedure:

sp_MSforeachdb 'SELECT "?" AS DB, * FROM [?].sys.tables WHERE name like ''%Table_Names%'''