Question

Say I’ve got some throw-away sample procedure that looks like this:

CREATE procedure simpletestproc_prc    
(     
  @companyId int,     
  @objectid float = 5.678,     
  @personname varchar(255)  = 'hello world'  
) as        

select @companyId + 10, @objectid, @personname

I can use the below query to get the types and names of all the parameters:

SELECT 
    *
FROM sys.procedures sp
INNER JOIN sys.parameters parm 
    ON sp.object_id = parm.object_id
INNER JOIN sys.types typ 
    ON parm.system_type_id = typ.system_type_id
WHERE sp.name = 'simpletestproc_prc'
order by parameter_id

But none of those columns (even parm.default_value) has 5.678 or ‘hello world’. How can I retrieve those values? If it matters, you can assume either SQL Server 2005 or 2008.

Answer 1

http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=181

Basically, you read sys.comments (where the text of the stored procedure are stored)