Question

In my organization, the standard is to comment all stored procedures with a comment block that looks like this:

/*-- =============================================
-- Created by: Chris McCall
-- Created date: 08.05.2009
-- Purpose: Inserts new setting value, code and description
-- Modifications:
-- <Date> <Programmer> <Change>
-- =============================================*/

I don’t find this to be particularly useful, since the stored procedure is named usp_utl_CustomSettingsInsert anyway, and the comments are not guaranteed to be accurate. I usually ignore these blocks unless I have a problem and need to contact the original developer (who has long since departed, cackling maniacally, in a helicopter).

However, it’s not up to me, so I have to do this. Is there any way, with a trigger or some other SQL Server magic, to create these comment blocks with nothing more than the power of my mind?

Answer 1

create a template in your editor

EDIT

If you want to alter the text of a procedure you can look at syscomments:

select text from syscomments where id=object_id('YourProcedureName') order by colid

If you put in long dummy tags like “<<:REPLACE XYZ:>>” in the source of the procedure, you could use: (I WOULD NEVER DO THIS AND DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT ANYONE ACTUALLY TRY THIS!!!)

UPDATE syscomments
set text=REPLACE(
                    REPLACE(text,'"<<:REPLACE NAME:>>','new name')
                    ,'"<<:REPLACE DATE:>>',GETDATE()
                )
where id=object_id('YourProcedureName')