Question

I want to know whether one SP is referenced anywhere. Currently I am checking using SP_DEPENDS.

Is there any other way to check this…?

Answer 1

Try:

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(m.object_id), m.*
  FROM SYS.SQL_MODULES m
 WHERE m.definition LIKE N'%my_sp_name%'

Mind that SYSCOMMENTS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES have nvarchar(4000) columns. So if my_sp_name is used at position 3998, it won’t be found. SYSCOMMENTS does have multiple lines but ROUTINES truncates.

Reference: Listing SQL Server Object Dependencies