Search for all occurrences of a string in a mysql database [duplicate]

Question

A simple solution would be doing something like this:

mysqldump -u myuser --no-create-info --extended-insert=FALSE databasename | grep -i "<search string>"

In phpMyAdmin a 'Search' feature is available:

1. Select particular database not table.
2. Click 'Search' tab
3. Enter the search term you want
4. Select the tables you want to search in

phpMyAdmin screen shot:

The 'Search' feature is also available in MySQL Workbench:

1. Database Menu > Search Table Data
2. Select database and tables you want to search (it will search in selected tables only)
3. In search you can use wildChars.

MySQL Workbench screen shot:

Old post I know, but for others that find this via Google like I did, if you have phpmyadmin installed, it has a global search feature.

Using the MySQL Workbench, you can search for a string from the "Database" -> "Search Table Data" menu option.

Specify LIKE %URL_TO_SEARCH% and on the left side select all the tables you want to search through. You can use "Cntrl + A" to select the whole tree on the left, and then deselect the objects you don't care about.

You can do this by using HeidiSQL without generating Db dumps

Steps:

1) Select the database you need to search in from the left panel of GUI.

2) Export > Export Database as SQL

3) In Table Tools window select "FIND TEXT" tab.

4) Provide your string to search and click "FIND".

5) It will list all the tables contains our string.

6) Select the row with higher relevance %.

7) Click "SEE RESULTS"