At 9:17 PM -0700 6/14/09, Chris Payne wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am in the middle of creating an editor where you can search and
replace on an individual column in a single table then I came across
something I need to be able to do but not sure how.
Is it posible (And if so please how :-) to search an entire database
and all tables within a database and do a find/replace on keywords
without having to specify each table/column within that table?
The people I am working for have made some big changes and one of them
is changing the names of one of their products, but this product name
appears EVERYWHERE in many tables and in lots of different column
names, and it would save so much time if I could do a single query
that would just search EVERYTHING within the database.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Regards
Chris Payne
Chris:
The problem you cite is exactly why one should use relational
databases. If the people you are working for had done that, then you
would have only to edit one table.
The process works like this -- you have a product table that has an
unique id with other information about each product, such as its
name. However, every table that references that product does so via
the product's id and not the product's name. As such, each look-up
for the product name requires first to know the product's id and then
pull out the name associated with that id.
In any event, a little more work at the start saves tons later.
Cheers,
tedd
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