Search All tables within a Database
I came across this very useful script the other day, it simply creates a Stored Procedure, where it allows you to search all columns within every table of a selected database, While it was said to be tested on SQL 7 and 2000 I can confirm it works on SQL 2005 just as well 
1: CREATE PROC SearchAllTables
2: (
3: @SearchStr nvarchar(100)
4: )
5: AS
6: BEGIN
7:
8: -- Copyright © 2002 Narayana Vyas Kondreddi. All rights reserved.
9: -- Purpose: To search all columns of all tables for a given search string
10: -- Written by: Narayana Vyas Kondreddi
11: -- Site: http://vyaskn.tripod.com
12: -- Tested on: SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000
13: -- Date modified: 28th July 2002 22:50 GMT
14:
15:
16: CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))
17:
18: SET NOCOUNT ON
19:
20: DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128), @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110)
21: SET @TableName = ''
22: SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')
23:
24: WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL
25: BEGIN
26: SET @ColumnName = ''
27: SET @TableName =
28: (
29: SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME))
30: FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
31: WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
32: AND QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME) > @TableName
33: AND OBJECTPROPERTY(
34: OBJECT_ID(
35: QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)
36: ), 'IsMSShipped'
37: ) = 0
38: )
39:
40: WHILE (@TableName IS NOT NULL) AND (@ColumnName IS NOT NULL)
41: BEGIN
42: SET @ColumnName =
43: (
44: SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME))
45: FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
46: WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = PARSENAME(@TableName, 2)
47: AND TABLE_NAME = PARSENAME(@TableName, 1)
48: AND DATA_TYPE IN ('char', 'varchar', 'nchar', 'nvarchar')
49: AND QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME) > @ColumnName
50: )
51:
52: IF @ColumnName IS NOT NULL
53: BEGIN
54: INSERT INTO #Results
55: EXEC
56: (
57: 'SELECT ''' + @TableName + '.' + @ColumnName + ''', LEFT(' + @ColumnName + ', 3630)
58: FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +
59: ' WHERE ' + @ColumnName + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2
60: )
61: END
62: END
63: END
64:
65: SELECT ColumnName, ColumnValue FROM #Results
66: END
Once you have ran the SP, you must call it, then within the ‘ ‘ you can type what you are looking for, the execute and wait!
EXEC SearchAllTables ‘your query here’
the original script was Found at :
http://vyaskn.tripod.com/search_all_columns_in_all_tables.htm
