Question

I want to access the stored procedure script using C#.

I used EXEC sp_HelpText STOREDPROCNAME. This is working fine.

Is there any way to retrieve stored procedure query and the stored procedure parameter separately??

ex: I need:

delete from [dbo].[tblTransactions] where [ID] = @ID

and

@ID numeric(18,0)

separately.

How to do this?

Answer 1

You can get the body this way, but there isn’t a way to parse out the individual statements:

SELECT definition FROM sys.sql_modules 
WHERE [object_id] = OBJECT_ID('dbo.procedurename');

You can get its parameters by:

SELECT name, system_type_id, max_length, precision, scale
FROM sys.parameters
WHERE [object_id] = OBJECT_ID('dbo.procedurename');

Note that you can’t determine without brute force parsing of the definition whether the parameters have a default value, and if they do, what the default value is. You are better equipped to do these things in C# using RegEx or other parsing methods, or PowerShell like the ParamParser project I started here.