How would you go about searching the contents of features, the values in the attribute columns, in an Esri geodatabase? (preference for file-gdb, but SDE would be useful too.)
I can envisage workflow where one dumps the whole gdb using Export XML Workspace and searches the result for strings (yuk!), or loops through all the tables in a python version of Select by Attributes. While both of these would work, they are not appealing.
The goal is to be able to efficiently answer a question like: which of these 50 feature classes has something to do with "Keno"?
Answer
The Features tab of the Find tool will do this if you add every feature class in the File Geodatabase to a map.
For example, if you are trying to find Afghanistan on a map of the world, you can enter Afghanistan or just Afgh in the Find tool, and you'll get a list of the features from layers in your map that contain that search string in any of their attributes.
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