Question

This is pretty weird.

I have my Profiler open and it obviously shows that a stored procedure is called. I open the database and the SP list, but the SP doesn’t exist. However, there’s another SP whose name is the same except it has a prefix ‘x’

Is SQL Server 2005 mapping the SP name to a different one for security purposes?

EDIT: I found out it’s a Synonym, whatever that is.

Answer 1

In general, when you know an object exists because it’s been used in a query, and you can’t find it in the object tree in Management Studio, you can do this to find it.

select * from sys.objects where name = 'THE_NAME_YOU_WANT' 

I just checked, and it works with Synonyms.