How to find a string inside a entire database?

Question

I have one specific string, such as \"123abcd\" for example but I don\'t know the name of the table or even the name of the column inside the table on my SQL Server Database

Answer 1

I think you have to options:

1. Build a dynamic SQL using sys.tables and sys.columns to perform the search (example here).

2. Use any program that have this function. An example of this is SQL Workbench (free).