Question

So far in the website I have only found stored procedures to list all the tables in a database, but what I really want to know is how to create a stored procedure in SQL Server to display all data of all tables in a specific database.

I don’t want to join the tables and then display a huge table, I want to create some kind of loop that takes the first table of the database, performs a

SELECT * FROM <Table>

query, and then continues with the next table of the database and so on until all tables are displayed.

I know it should be easy but I have never created a stored procedure before so I don’t know how to use the variables or go through the tables.

Thank you

Answer 1

1. learn how to create a stored procedure
2. learn how to use variables in a stored procedure
3. Get a list of all the table names
4. use a cursor to create a while loop on a list of all table names
5. use dynamic sql on ‘select * from ‘ + @tablename