Posted by hugues.morel on 09/22/07 09:34

Hi,

I need to do a report from data in a database that was provided by a
third party where there is no documentation at all. It contains more
than hundred tables and each table has different GUID fields.
In one table there is GUID as a primary key and another GUID as
foreign key. But there is no relation defined to what table this
foreign key refers. I suppose the link between these two tables is
purely managed programatically.

To find out to which table this foreign key is referring I would take
a sample record, write down the value of this foreign key GUID and
then search in all the tables of the database where this value also
appears.

Does anybody have a script or a tool that would allow me to specify a
GUID and it would search through all the tables, detect which fields
are GUIDS, find that value in a GUID field and report all tables and
fieldnames where this value has been found?

Thanks for any help.
Hugues

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