Locating an object

Use the Locate notebook to specify criteria and search a database object for a name inside the database, the table space, or across tables and their supporting objects. If you are searching in index or table space objects, you can also set search criteria to help you decide whether to run certain utilities. Use the Locate page to specify search criteria and use the Advanced page to further customize the search.

Fields and controls

Authorities and privileges



To locate an object defined within a database:

  1. Open the Locate notebook.

  2. From the Object type field, select the type of database object to search. The list of objects available is dependent on the database object you selected.

  3. On the Locate page use the Column, Comparison, and Values fields to specify criteria for up to five different catalog columns. You must either type some value in at least one of the Values fields, including a one-character wild-card (for an inclusive search) or specify some criteria to define a needed utility (for index and table space objects only). To search on all objects, type the wild-card % in a field. The strings you type in the values column will be folded to upper case unless delimited.

  4. On the Locate page select a radio button to specify whether to meet all the conditions selected in the fields on the Locate page, or meet at least one of the conditions.

  5. Optional. On the Locate page click Clear to clear the search criteria that you defined.

  6. Optional. Customize your search. Select the Advanced tab to change the WHERE clause generated from your choices on the Locate page.

  7. Optional. On the Advanced page click Reset to reset the search criteria to the values defined on the Locate page.

  8. Click OK to use the search criteria that you defined. The result of your search is displayed in the Locate Result window.

  9. Click Apply to repeat the search with the same or different criteria.


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