Question

I have a huge database with 100’s of tables and stored procedures. Using SQL Server 2005, how can I get a list of stored procedures that are doing an insert or update operation on a given table.

Answer 1

select   so.name,   sc.text from   sysobjects so inner join syscomments sc on so.id = sc.id where   sc.text like '%INSERT INTO xyz%'   or sc.text like '%UPDATE xyz%' 

This will give you a list of all stored procedure contents with INSERT or UPDATE in them for a particular table (you can obviously tweak the query to suit). Also longer procedures will be broken across multiple rows in the returned recordset so you may need to do a bit of manual sifting through the results.

Edit: Tweaked query to return SP name as well. Also, note the above query will return any UDFs as well as SPs.