Find all tables in db with column name of a particular string?

I'm looking for all tables in a db that have a certain column name. How can I find this?

John,
thanks for your answer.
John Mcginnis wrote:
The quick search field in the schema browser is doing client-side filtering of the list of objects. This means we can only filter on things that we already have fetched from the database, like the object name. We have no current plans to extend the types of information that can filter on, although it is possible we might add the ability to filter based on a few other types of information that we generally fetch with the object name. However, filtering by column name would require pre-fetching the lists of columns for all tables and as such is not likely to be added to the schema browsers search field.
I'm sure you guys had a Toad review to understand how things are done there.....so
My 2 cents are: instead of pre-fetching the columns of all tables why don't you add a button below the table drop-down list which should fetch the tables based on the filter columns condition - exactly like Toad.
Thanks,
Dani

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