Changing menu paths for existing nodes in Drupal 7 So I have created around 100 articles of a specific content type and provided all of them a menu path under a specific menu.

Now the requirement is to alter these menu paths and give these nodes a new menu path under another menu. The longer and obvious way to go about doing this is to edit each of these content types manually and then edit the menu path to edit and point it to the new menu. This is a painstaking procedure that shall consume time. I am sure there are alternatives such as a Drupal module that let's you mass alter menu paths for a specific content type?

Alternately, is there a way for me to get into the drupal database and find out where these menu paths for a specific node/content type are stored? And I can simply execute a query that goes in and changes that?

Thanks!
Take a look at the Pathauto module. You can configure it to create paths automatically with a given pattern for individual content types. It also has options to bulk delete and update existing paths.