[dba-Tech] Windows Explorer Find replacement

I just wish it would search Access files! I want to know which of 200 MDB
files contains the table XYZ, and apparently I have no choice but to open
each one. This ought not be difficult but apparently it is. Why, I do not
know. Maybe there is a solution to this problem, ideally generic enough to
also inspect MS-SQL MDF files too. And the MySQL databases too. I would like
to target all the databases of a certain type and locate a column XYZ within
them. That would be nice. 
I create a lot of documents to be sure, but that is not where the really
important stuff lives. Yeah, I am a database geek, but so what, does that
mean I am chopped liver?
Incidentally, I almost never use PowerPoint but do the search things find
text therein? And what about Excel files? And for that matter, what about
text strings in executables?
A.
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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Josh McFarlane
Sent: December 8, 2005 2:32 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Explorer Find replacement

On 12/8/05, MartyConnelly <martyconnelly at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I use Google's Desktop Search Engine. It takes about 12 hours to index a
> full 20 gig drive.
> Once done, searches are generally less than 5 seconds.
> It only indexes to a depth of 5000 characters in a file unless
> additional plugins used
> You can search in only specific files by adding to the search string
> filetype:doc to look at only word documents.
> A plus is it also searchs your IE favourite URL's and whatever is in the
> IE cache.
>
> I have used the find function only a couple of times in past year.

I personally love it when I need to search text based documents.

I have google search on my development machine, and it's pretty
accurate when I need to dig up a 3rd-party header file or such that I
remember downloading at one time, but forgot where I put it.