Question

Does anyone know a way to access the text of stored procedures using LINQ to SQL? I’d like to audit a set of stored procedures to check that they contain all contain some common code.

It feels like there should be a nice way of opening them through a LINQ to SQL data context but I don’t know how. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You could try something along these lines:

string results = db.ExecuteQuery<string> (@'EXEC sp_helptext '{0}'', procedure_name); 

or use this query in you LINQ:

SELECT text FROM syscomments WHERE id = (SELECT id FROM sysobjects WHERE name = 'procedure_name') ORDER BY colid