Question

I am trying to change a specific value, which has no connection to it’s column name or table.

For example it can appear in:

column `name` in the table `users`

And also in:

column `hi` in the table `jokes`

There are many more unknown locations.
How can I run a loop on all the sql data in my database to change it?

I’m using PHPMyAdmin

Answer 1

As you are saying PHPMyAdmin I suppose you are using MySQL.

See:

• Search for all occurrences of a string in a mysql database
• or Find and replace in entire mysql database.

There’s also a PHP script to do this at:

• Search and Replace text in whole MySQL database