Global search and replace utility

2008-10-09 Thread mike cantor
Does anyone know of a utility that can go through a set of tables (or every table) in a MySql database and preform a global search and replace (i.e. replace every instance string1 in a text field with string2). Or is there a super clever query that accomplishes this? I have seen a few

Re: Global search and replace utility

2008-10-09 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:21 PM, mike cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a utility that can go through a set of tables (or every table) in a MySql database and preform a global search and replace (i.e. replace every instance string1 in a text field with string2

global search

2005-12-14 Thread mel list_php
Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to do a global search through all the tables in mysql? (not taking into account the performance issue) If for example I want to search ABC in all the columns of one table: select * from table where [whatever the column] like '%ABC%' or globally select

Re: global search

2005-12-14 Thread Gleb Paharenko
in MySQL 5.0. mel list_php wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to do a global search through all the tables in mysql? (not taking into account the performance issue) If for example I want to search ABC in all the columns of one table: select * from table where

Re: global search

2005-12-14 Thread mel list_php
to, for ex step1_table,step1_table2, step2_table Is it possible to use wildchars for the search, something like select * from step1_* ? Thanks, melanie From: Gleb Paharenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: global search Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:48:22 +0200 Hello. It's

Re: global search

2005-12-14 Thread SGreen
, melanie From: Gleb Paharenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: global search Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:48:22 +0200 Hello. It's probably possible to do a small script describing all the columns then building a query to search in, but I was wondering

global search and replace

2001-02-20 Thread Matt Davis
I have an MySQL table in which one of the fields is a list of different catergorys. I want to change that catergory name to some thing else however it appears in my table just over 900 times. Is there any way I can do some sort of glabal search and replace in My SQL? Mat