Schema browsing

Hi Guys,
I am looking for a specific word to locate corresponding fields in an oracle database. I want to browse through all existing schemas (or only a specific schema) for this word
anybody can help with a sql script that can i use??
thanks

What might get you started is running a SQL Developer report.
Please pull down the menu View || Reports
This will expose a hierarchy of potentially useful metadata.
Navigate through
All Reports || Data Dictionary Reports || Table || Comments
and double click on the "Column Comments" report.
After connecting to a target schema, you can filter your results based upon the table and column names that you are trying to find.
For instance, you might be interested in all the columns that end with "ID". No problem, just click on Column and enter ID in the Value box. Any partial match on ID regardless of case will appear. If the database developers were kind enough to include comments with their column definitions, then that text will appear next to the columns in the report.
Hope this helps.
Steve newguy

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c_tab_comment varchar2(32767);
procedure run(p_sql varchar2) as
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run('comment on table BI_ETL.WE_ENROLL_SNAPSHOT_V1 is '||''''||c_tab_comment||'''');
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WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL;
end;
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WBIG table of frozen, point-in-time snapshots of Enrolled Students by Category/term/pidm. "Category" is historically, and commonly, our CENSUS snapshot; but, can also describe other frequencies, or categorizations, such as: End-of-Term (EOT), etc. Note: Prior to this table existing, Census-snapshots were stored in SATURN.SNAPREG_ALL. All FALL and SPRING term records prior-to-and-including Spring 2013 ('201230') have been migrated into this table -- EXCEPT a few select prior to Fall 2004 (200410) records where there are duplicates on term/pidm. NO Summer snapshots existed in SNAPREG_ALL, but were queried and stored retroactively (including terms prior to Spring 2013) for the purpose of future on-going year-over-year analysis and comparison.
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So, in the above PL/SQL line 11 grabs this string into "c_tab_comment", but then line 12 fails because of the single quotes. It doesn't know how to end the string because the single quotes in the string are not "escaped", and this messes up the concatenation on line 12. (So, then no other column comments are created either because the block throws an error, and goes to line 22 for the exception and exits.)
When I modify the above PL/SQL as my own anonymous block like this, it is successful:
declare
c_tab_comment VARCHAR2(32767);
begin
SELECT REPLACE(comments,chr(39),chr(39)||chr(39)) INTO c_tab_comment FROM sys.all_TAB_comments WHERE owner = 'BI_ETL'   AND table_name = 'WE_ENROLL_SNAPSHOT' AND comments IS NOT NULL;
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   loop
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end loop;
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EXCEPTION
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On lines 4 and 8 I wrapped the "comments" from sys.all_tab_comments and sys.all_col_comments with a replace command finding every chr(39) and replacing with chr(39)||chr(39). (On line 8 I also had to alias the wrapped column as "comments" so line 10 would succeed.)
Is this an issue with SQL Developer? Is there any chance that the menu-items can handle single quotes in comment strings? ... And, of course this makes me wonder which other context menu commands in the tool might have a similar issue.
Thoughts?
thanks//jacob

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