CREATE PROC SearchAllTables
(
    @SearchStr nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN

    -- Copyright © 2002 Narayana Vyas Kondreddi. All rights reserved.
    -- Purpose: To search all columns of all tables for a given search string
    -- Written by: Narayana Vyas Kondreddi
    -- Site: http://vyaskn.tripod.com
    -- Tested on: SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000
    -- Date modified: 28th July 2002 22:50 GMT


    CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))

    SET NOCOUNT ON

    DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128), @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110)
    SET  @TableName = ''
    SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')

    WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL
    BEGIN
  SET @ColumnName = ''
  SET @TableName =
  (
      SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME))
      FROM     INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
      WHERE        TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
      AND  QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME) > @TableName
      AND  OBJECTPROPERTY(
          OBJECT_ID(
              QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)
               ), 'IsMSShipped'
                 ) = 0
  )

  WHILE (@TableName IS NOT NULL) AND (@ColumnName IS NOT NULL)
  BEGIN
      SET @ColumnName =
      (
      SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME))
      FROM     INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
      WHERE        TABLE_SCHEMA = PARSENAME(@TableName, 2)
          AND  TABLE_NAME   = PARSENAME(@TableName, 1)
          AND  DATA_TYPE IN ('char', 'varchar', 'nchar', 'nvarchar')
          AND  QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME) > @ColumnName
      )

      IF @ColumnName IS NOT NULL
      BEGIN
      INSERT INTO #Results
      EXEC
      (
          'SELECT ''' + @TableName + '.' + @ColumnName + ''', LEFT(' + @ColumnName + ', 3630) 
         FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +
          ' WHERE ' + @ColumnName + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2
      )
      END
  END  
    END

    SELECT ColumnName, ColumnValue FROM #Results
END

EXEC SearchAllTables 'Computer'
GO