Run Same Statement On Multiple Views

Question

I have about 2000 views that I need to run a select statement on.  I 1st need to run a query that will check if state = 'AR' and if it does, I need it to return either yes or the view name.  So for example, how could I run this one statement on
all those views?
Select Count(*)
From firstviewinlist
Where [state] = 'Ar'
Currently I have the list of 2000 views to run this against (all on the same server) in Excel, wasn't sure if I was going to have to manually do it or build a massive unionall query - so thought I would ask for guidance here 1st.

Answer 1

This is what I came up in 10 mins. If you have views stored in multiple databases then change the database name and execute the script in each DB:
USE YourDB
GO
CREATE TABLE #T (ID INT IDENTITY NOT NULL, TableNames VARCHAR(1000))
CREATE TABLE #Final (TableNames VARCHAR(1000))
INSERT INTO #T (TableNames)
SELECT '['+C.TABLE_CATALOG+'].['+C.TABLE_SCHEMA+'].['+C.TABLE_NAME+']' TableName
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS C
JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES T ON C.TABLE_CATALOG = T.TABLE_CATALOG AND
C.TABLE_SCHEMA = T.TABLE_SCHEMA AND
C.TABLE_NAME = T.TABLE_NAME
WHERE T.TABLE_TYPE = 'View'
--AND C.TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo'
AND COLUMN_NAME = 'State'
GROUP BY '['+C.TABLE_CATALOG+'].['+C.TABLE_SCHEMA+'].['+C.TABLE_NAME+']'
DECLARE @N INT, @Str NVARCHAR(MAX), @TableName NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @N = 1
WHILE (1=1)
BEGIN
SELECT @TableName = TableNames
FROM #T
WHERE ID = @N
SET @Str =
' INSERT INTO #Final(TableNames)
SELECT TOP 1 '''+@TableName+'''
FROM '+@TableName+'
WHERE EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM '+@TableName+' WHERE [State] = ''Ar'') '
EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL @Str
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0 BREAK;
SET @N = @N + 1
END
SELECT *
FROM #Final
--DROP TABLE #T, #Final
Hope it helps!
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