The following query will search the entire AdventureWorks database for any column that looks like ‘address’.
Here’s what we get for the output:

You can also see it returns 32 rows that includes tables and views, greatly narrowing your search. With a tiny bit of insight you can probably narrow your search to 2 or 3 tables.
It’s a simple little query but one that always saves me a bunch of time.
USE AdventureWorks; GO SELECT OBJECT_NAME(id), name FROM syscolumns WHERE name like '%address%' ORDER BY 1 ASC;
Here’s what we get for the output:
You can also see it returns 32 rows that includes tables and views, greatly narrowing your search. With a tiny bit of insight you can probably narrow your search to 2 or 3 tables.
It’s a simple little query but one that always saves me a bunch of time.
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