I love SQL Server Management Studio's 'Find in files' capability -- searching specific file types along multiple pre-defined paths for specified strings. (I have a PERL-driven ASCII editor which does something very similar.) But I am needing a batch process to execute the same sort of argument-rich search for many MANY DIFFERENT strings. I had assumed that once I ran a preliminary search, the query windows would provide (along with the search results) the SQL query syntax executed to produce that search -- which I could then use as a template for creating a complex query or batch search. I see now that this 'Find-in-files' capability in Management Studio isn't a SQL query at all, but a process apparently internal to the software itself. I'm an avid SQL user, but not really a SQL programmer. Does anyone have a simple approach to accomplishing this sort of search in a 'scalable' SQL query?