Finding Column Name for a Data Pattern

Question

Hi all,
I want to find out all the column names which is having matching data pattern such as 'Football'
I want to get all those column names whose data matches value 'FootBall'
Which Data Dictionary i can find out column name with data value
Pls advice
Thanks

Answer 1

Definitely a strange requirement but hey....
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  declare
  2    cursor cur_tables is
  3      select table_name from user_tables order by 1;
  4    cursor cur_columns(p_table IN VARCHAR2) is
  5      select column_name from user_tab_columns
  6      where data_type IN ('CHAR', 'VARCHAR2')
  7      and table_name = p_table;
  8    v_cnt NUMBER;
  9    v_sep VARCHAR2(10);
10    v_where VARCHAR2(2000);
11    v_word VARCHAR2(30) := 'FOOTBALL';
12  begin
13    DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(1000000);
14    FOR t IN cur_tables
15    LOOP
16      v_sep := ' WHERE ';
17      v_where := NULL;
18      FOR c IN cur_columns(t.table_name)
19      LOOP
20        v_where := v_where||v_sep||c.column_name||' LIKE ''%'||v_word||'%''';
21        v_sep := ' OR ';
22      END LOOP;
23      IF v_where IS NOT NULL THEN
24        EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'SELECT count(*) FROM '||t.table_name||v_where INTO v_cnt;
25        IF v_cnt > 0 THEN
26          DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_word||' is in table '||t.table_name);
27        END IF;
28      END IF;
29    END LOOP;
30* end;
SQL> /
FOOTBALL is in table ADDRESS
FOOTBALL is in table LOGTEXT
FOOTBALL is in table NOMINAL
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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