Find a table name

Question

Hi,
Do anobody knows any procedure at PL/SQL which returns name of table and column which contain a desired value. I'm adding something to database threw GUI and I dont know in which table this value is added. Maybe there is some procedure which do somethong like this:
select * from * where exist ‘some string’

Answer 1

you can start work around using this very basic proc.
DECLARE
CURSOR col_cur IS
SELECT * FROM all_col_comments acc WHERE acc.table_name = 'XXX';
tbl_name all_col_comments.table_name%TYPE;
col_name all_col_comments.column_name%TYPE;
lv_sql VARCHAR2(200);
lv_txt VARCHAR2(100);
BEGIN
FOR col_rec IN col_cur
LOOP
IF col_rec.table_name LIKE '%XXX%' AND col_rec.column_name = 'YYY' THEN
tbl_name := col_rec.table_name;
col_name := col_rec.column_name;
lv_sql := 'SELECT ' || tbl_name || '.' || col_name || ' FROM ' ||
tbl_name || ' WHERE ' || tbl_name || '.' || col_name LIKE
'%zzz%';
dbms_output.put_line(lv_sql);
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE lv_sql
INTO lv_txt;
dbms_output.put_line(lv_txt);
END IF;
END LOOP;
END;