How do I find a value anywhere in a SQL Server Database?

LOOKUP SERACH :

                                      I  want to search a  patient details in entire database  using the patient name .So below Sp is useful  for me .

 This might help you. - from Manoj. It searches all columns of all tables in a given database. I have used it before and it works.
This is the below Stored Proc  the only change I made was substituting the temp table for a table variable so you don't have to remember to drop it each time.



-- SearchAllTables

CREATE PROC SearchAllTables  'Test'
(
    @SearchStr nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN
-- Copyright © 2013 MANOJ. All rights reserved.
-- Purpose: To search all columns of all tables for a given search string
-- Written by: Manoj.b
-- Site: http://manojtechnicalblog.blogspot.in
-- Tested on: SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000
-- Date modified: 25th feb 2013 01:25 GMT
DECLARE @Results TABLE(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 

 

Worked great and I was able to find the information I needed!  The query was looking at Great Plains and came back in about 30 Seconds