Question

I’m trying to list all the stored procedures from all the databases on my server, and I can’t seem to filter out system objects reliably. I was using:

SELECT *
  FROM sysobjects
 WHERE id > 100

Which seems to work fine in every database except MSDB, which is full of a ton of stored procs with normal-looking IDs, but they’re system stored procs. As far as I can tell, there’s no way for me to filter out system stored procs using any of the values in the sysobjects table – does anybody else know of a value that can be used to filter?

They’re all marked as type=”P”, which means it’s a stored proc, but there seems to be no flag to specify if it’s a system stored proc or a user one. I can use the sys.objects view and filter for “IsMsShipped=0”, but I’d like something that also works on SQL 2000, so I’d prefer to use the older views (like sysobjects) if it’s possible.

Answer 1

This works on my SQL Server 2008 R2 install. I don’t see much at all except for user databases

SELECT 
    *
FROM
   sys.objects
WHERE
   OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, 'IsMSShipped') = 0

You can change sys.objects to say, sys.tables and it still works, or use the “type” column to filter. Or use OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, ‘IsProcedure’) etc.

Note: it’s sys.objects in SQL Server 2005+

Note 2: OBJECTPROPERTY will work for SQL Server 2000 too:

SELECT 
    *
FROM
   sysobjects
WHERE
   OBJECTPROPERTY(id, 'IsMSShipped') = 0