Question

I’m looking for exactly what Management Studio shows with the “View Dependencies” menu.

1. Management Studio connected to SQL Server 2008
2. Right click on an object and choose “View Dependencies”
3. Now you can navigate through the dependencies back and forth.

How do I get the same information programmatically? (an SQL query?)

Answer 1

Before you run the following query, replace <database_name> and <schema_name.function_name> with valid names

USE <database_name>;
GO
SELECT OBJECT_NAME(object_id) AS referencing_object_name
    ,COALESCE(COL_NAME(object_id, column_id), '(n/a)') AS referencing_column_name
    ,*
FROM sys.sql_dependencies
WHERE referenced_major_id = OBJECT_ID('<schema_name.function_name>')
ORDER BY OBJECT_NAME(object_id), COL_NAME(object_id, column_id);
GO