Search Particular Column in all Tables or Views in Sql Server Database

Introduction: In this article I have explained How to find all tables or views in sql server database that contain a specific column. Or we can say list out all the table and views where particular column exists.

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Description: While working with sql server database it may be required to search for a specific column in all the tables for many reasons e.g. to change that column name or its data type or length etc.I have mentioned the query to frequently list out all the table and views where the column exists that we want to search.

Implementation: Let’s write the queries to list tables containing desired column. 

Query to Search column in all table

DECLARE @ColumnName NVARCHAR(50)= 'BookPrice'

SELECT

scm.name AS 'Schema',

tbl.name   AS 'Table',

clm.name AS 'Column'

FROM sys.columns clm

INNER JOIN sys.tables tbl ON tbl.object_id = clm.object_id

INNER JOIN sys.schemas scm ON tbl.schema_Id = scm.Schema_Id

WHERE clm.name LIKE '%' + @ColumnName + '%'

ORDER BY scm.name, tbl.name, clm.name

Result: 

Schema	Table	Column
dbo	tbBookDetails	BookPrice
dbo	tbBookMaster	BookPrice
dbo	tbBooks	BookPrice

Query to Search column in all table and Views

DECLARE @ColumnName NVARCHAR(50)= 'BookPrice'

SELECT

TABLE_SCHEMA   AS 'Schema',

TABLE_NAME       AS 'Table/View',

COLUMN_NAME  AS 'Column'

FROM

INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS

WHERE

COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%' + @ColumnName + '%'

ORDER BY COLUMN_NAME

Result 

Schema	Table/View	Column
dbo	tbBooks	BookPrice
dbo	tbBookMaster	BookPrice
dbo	vwBookDetails	BookPrice
dbo	tbBookDetails	BookPrice

 Now over to you:

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