SQL Tips and Tricks: Find All Query

Tips and Tricks for our SQL Users. When should you utilize this query?

| Aspect Consulting | 27 November 2020

Find All Query

The Problem

Your boss has asked you to make changes to an application that will affect an MS SQL Server database, and first needs to know the impact analysis of those changes before any work is performed.

The Solution

Utilize this simple Find All query to help you find all impacted objects in your database with minimal effort.

Let’s say you need to find all occurrences of “status” in your database. Click to view query syntax that will find all objects (tables, stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, keys, and default values) that include the string “status” somewhere in the name or contents of the object, and provide a count of those occurrences.

DECLARE @searchString varchar(500)

 

SET @searchString = ‘status’

SELECT rs.[Name]

, rs.[Type]

, rs.[xtype]

COUNT([TextMatch]) as ‘Number of References’

FROM   (

SELECT so.[Name]

, so.[Type]

, so.[xtype]

, so.[Name] as ‘TextMatch’

FROM   sysobjects so

WHERE  so.[name] IS NOT NULL

AND    so.[Name] LIKE ‘%’ + @searchString + ‘%’

AND    (   so.[Type] = ‘U’   — User Table

OR so.[Type] = ‘P’   — Stored Procedure

OR so.[Type] = ‘V’   — View

OR so.[Type] = ‘FN’  — User Defined Function

OR so.[Type] = ‘TR’  — Trigger

OR so.[Type] = ‘K’   — Primary Key

OR so.[Type] = ‘F’   — Foreign Key

OR so.[Type] = ‘DF’  — Default Value

)

UNION

SELECT so.[Name]

, so.[Type]

, so.[xtype]

, sc.[text] as ‘TextMatch’

FROM   sysobjects so

JOIN   syscomments sc

ON     so.[id] = sc.[id]

WHERE  so.[name] IS NOT NULL

AND    sc.[text] LIKE ‘%’ + @searchString + ‘%’

AND    (   so.[Type] = ‘U’   — User Table

OR so.[Type] = ‘P’   — Stored Procedure

OR so.[Type] = ‘V’   — View

OR so.[Type] = ‘FN’  — User Defined Function

OR so.[Type] = ‘TR’  — Trigger

OR so.[Type] = ‘K’   — Primary Key

OR so.[Type] = ‘F’   — Foreign Key

OR so.[Type] = ‘DF’  — Default Value

)

) rs

GROUP BY rs.[Name], rs.[Type], rs.[xtype]

ORDER BY rs.[Type], rs.[name]

 

 

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