How to identify tables which contains a particular text in Bamboo Postgres SQL DB
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Summary
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This knowledge base article provides a PostgreSQL DB query using which you can identify the tables where a particular text is mentioned.
Environment
Tested on Bamboo 9.2.11 and PostgreSQL DB.
Solution
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with found_rows as (
select format('%I.%I', table_schema, table_name) as table_name,
query_to_xml(format('select to_jsonb(t) as table_row
from %I.%I as t
where t::text like ''%%sample_text%%'' ', table_schema, table_name),
true, false, '') as table_rows
from information_schema.tables
where table_schema = 'public'
)
select table_name, x.table_row
from found_rows f
left join xmltable('//table/row'
passing table_rows
columns
table_row text path 'table_row') as x on trueℹ️ Please replace sample_text with the exact text which you want to search.
ℹ️ By default table_schema = 'public', if it's different for your DB, please replace this.
As this is a generic DB query it can be used on other product Databases too, but this has not been extensively tested outside Bamboo.
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