Question

SQL Server Server 2005. I’m staring at a database that has 500+ stored procedures, and trying to glean the intricacies of how they interact with the data – particularly in regards to how they insert/modify data. I was hoping to find a search’ or ‘find’ functionality that would look at the content of the actual procedure. That way, I could do a search for all procedures that do anything at all with some_table_name. The basic find functionality of SQL Management Studio looks in opened files, and Find in Files only appears to find the content if I already have the sproc opened, and even then only in the …\Local Settings\Temp\~vs1011.sql temporary type files.

As of right now, the only way I know of getting to the underlying procedure is to right click and select ‘modify’ (or Script Stored Procedure As => Create or Alter). Is there a faster/easier way to search/examine all the sprocs?

Answer 1

There is an Information_Schema.Routines view that you can use.

select *  FROM   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES  WHERE  OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(SPECIFIC_NAME),'IsMSShipped') =0         and OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID(SPECIFIC_NAME)) like '%search term here%'         AND ROUTINE_TYPE='PROCEDURE'