Search of table names

Question

I use the following to search for strings in my stored procedures:

use DBname
SELECT Name
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE \'%xxx%\'
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Answer 1

Adding on to @[RichardTheKiwi]'s answer.

Whenever I search for a list of tables, in general I want to select from all of them or delete them. Below is a script that generates those scripts for you.

The generated select script also adds a tableName column so you know what table you're looking at:

select 'select ''' + name + ''' as TableName, * from ' + name as SelectTable,
'delete from ' + name as DeleteTable
from sys.tables
where name like '%xxxx%'
and is_ms_shipped = 0;