Friday, July 15, 2011

Locate an Object across all databases on server

How many times have you wanted to quickly find an object on a server?

You don't know which database it's located in and there are 30+ databases on the server.

The following is a quick snippet that does this task.  It's not very sophisticated but gets the job done.

Dave

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--  Look for the object ColumnButtons across the server
--     Dave Winters 7/2011
use master
go
exec sp_msforeachdb @command1 = 'use [?];
  if object_id(''ColumnButtons'') > 0 print ''Found in:  ?''; '

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