Question

I am sure this is a simple question, but I am having no luck getting it answered.

I have a number of views in a MS SQL 2008 database I am now supporting but I am not able to find how to access the queries that define the views. I need to see that to get a list of all tables and databases the views are accessing.

Answer 1

several ways, right click on the view and select SCRIPT View AS–>CREATE TO–> New Query Window (see picture below) , don’t click design because the designer doesn’t support CASE and other statements

or

sp_helptext 'ViewName'

or

select object_definition(object_id('ViewName'))

or

select name, object_definition(object_id) 
from sys.views
where name = 'ViewName'

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