Question

I have a DB with +100 tables, most tables have a column that saves a URL but with different “Column Name” and URL is different as well. e.g.

In one table its

usa3030.Development.com/portal/mybook/chapter1/page1/line1

and in another one its

usa3030.Development.com/portal/mybook/chapter1

and so on, but for sure each URL have “usa3030.Development.com/portal/mybook/chapter1” in them

So I want a query that Will find each column that have text within column data (with “*” I think we call wildcard)

"usa3030.Development.com/portal/mybook/chapter1"

and replace it with

usa3030.Development.com/MyWorld/Chp1

Answer

Search Or replace Stored Procedure

Answer 1

Here I guess you have to go through the following steps:

DECLARE @string varchar(max)
For each table in sys.Objects (where type='U')

      For each column of the above table

        IF EXISTS(select * from tablename where colname like '%'+@string+'%')
        update table tablename SET colnmae=REPLACE(colname,'old','new') where colname like '%'+@string+'%')