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Re: How to find all tables using a field value

From: EdStevens <quetico_man_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:16:42 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <228e75af-fcc9-4c55-8367-8fc37bc4e870@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>


On Dec 19, 1:45 pm, Homer <HomerS..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need a way to find all the tables whose field contains a certain
> value. The problem I'm encountering is the vendor software uses
> oracle database and it has countless number of tables (around 1,000).
> To top it off, the table name does not match the front-end. I'm
> trying to find all the tables that has 'Finance' as a department
> field. Can this be done?
>
> Thank you,
> Jon

Let's see if I understand this correctly. You want to identify any table that might have a particular value ('Finance') occurring in any column of any row. Is that correct? Received on Wed Dec 19 2007 - 14:16:42 CST

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