I'm working through AdventureWorks2008R2 database and I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to iterate through all of the tables within this database and then given a condition iterate through the rows within a specific column of that table?
Currently I have
SELECT DISTINCT
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.ORDINAL_POSITION,TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE ('%date%') AND COLUMN_NAME Not LIKE '%JobCandidate%'
;
What I'd like to do from here is go through these tables and then their rows changing the the dates based on a given condition.
In non SQL code and loose pseudo it might be something like
FOR TABLES
SELECT A TABLE WITH A COLUMN THAT HAS A DATE IN IT
FOR COLUMN_WITH_DATE_HEADER
IF ROW HAS DATE GIVEN SOME CONDITION
UPDATE ROW IN THAT TABLE
Can anyone assist with this?
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE
Here is the code that I created adapting it from @Mars solution.
SELECT DISTINCT
IDENTITY(int,1,1) AS SN,
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.ORDINAL_POSITION
, TABLE_SCHEMA
, TABLE_NAME
, COLUMN_NAME
INTO #temptable
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE ('%date%')
AND COLUMN_NAME Not LIKE '%JobCandidate%' AND
COLUMN_NAME NOT LIKE '%BirthDate%';
DECLARE @start INT=1
, @end INT=0
, @query NVARCHAR(MAX)='';
DECLARE @conditions NVARCHAR(MAX)='' ;
SELECT @end=MAX(SN)
FROM #temptable
WHILE (@start<=@end)
BEGIN
SELECT
@conditions = ' WHERE ' + 'YEAR('+ COLUMN_NAME +')' + ' < 2009',
@query= 'UPDATE '+TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'
+TABLE_NAME +' SET '+ COLUMN_NAME
+' = dateadd(YEAR,8,' + COLUMN_NAME + ')'
FROM #temptable
WHERE SN =@start
EXEC (@query)
SET @start+=1
END
DROP TABLE #temptable
You need to set required date to update and conditions to check into variables @updatatingDate
and @conditions
SELECT DISTINCT
IDENTITY(int,1,1) AS SN,
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.ORDINAL_POSITION
, TABLE_SCHEMA
, TABLE_NAME
, COLUMN_NAME
INTO #temptable
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE ('%date%')
AND COLUMN_NAME Not LIKE '%JobCandidate%';
DECLARE @start INT=1
, @end INT=0
, @query NVARCHAR(MAX)=''
, @updatatingDate NVARCHAR(100)='2017-04-04'
, @conditions NVARCHAR(MAX)='1=1'
SELECT @end=MAX(SN)
FROM #temptable
WHILE (@start<=@end)
BEGIN
SELECT
@query= 'UPDATE '+TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'
+TABLE_NAME +' SET '+ COLUMN_NAME
+' ='''+@updatatingDate+''' WHERE '
+@conditions
FROM #temptable
WHERE SN =@start
EXEC (@query)
SET @start+=1
END
--DROP TABLE #temptable;