Question

It happens sometimes, how do i get to know when my stored procedure dropped/removed without my knowledge?

It annoys me whenever I debugs and found to know that the stored procedure doesn’t exits, which created and tested some days ago.

Is there a way to know the removed Stored Procedures in MS SQL Server?

Answer 1

The standard way to check if procedure exists is

if exists(     SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES     WHERE routine_type = N'PROCEDURE' and routine_name = @procname)   print 'exists' 

Starting with MSSQL 2005 you can use [DDL trigger](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190989(SQL.90%29.aspx) to send email notification when procedure is dropped or created:

USE msdb GO CREATE TABLE ddl_log (ID int idenity(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,  PostTime datetime,  DB_User nvarchar(100),  Event nvarchar(100),  TSQL nvarchar(2000));  CREATE TRIGGER DDL_Notify ON DATABASE FOR DROP_PROCEDURE, CREATE_PROCEDURE AS DECLARE @data XML,         @tableHTML  NVARCHAR(MAX) ;  SET @data = EVENTDATA()  INSERT msdb.dbo.ddl_log (PostTime, DB_User, Event, TSQL) VALUES (GETDATE(), CONVERT(nvarchar(100), USER_NAME()),    @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/EventType)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)'),    @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand)[1]', 'nvarchar(2000)') ) ;  SET @tableHTML =     N'<H1>DDL Table Event</H1>' +     N'<table border='1'>' +     N'<tr><th>Post Time</th><th>User</th>' +     N'<th>TSQL</th><th></tr>' +     CAST ( ( SELECT td = PostTime, '',                     td = DB_User, '',                     td = TSQL, ''               FROM msdb.dbo.ddl_log               WHERE id = (select max(id) from msdb.dbo.ddl_log)               FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE     ) AS NVARCHAR(MAX) ) +     N'</table>';  EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail     @profile_name = 'Default',     @recipients = '[e-mail]',     @subject = 'DDL Table Event',     @body = @tableHTML,     @body_format = 'HTML'