Do wyszukiwania ciągu znaków we wszystkich polach tekstowych w każdej tabeli w bazie danych posłuży nam ten fragment kodu:

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

Wywołanie: sql EXEC SearchAllTables 'Computer' GO

Źródło: http://vyaskn.tripod.com/search_all_columns_in_all_tables.htm