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Asked: 2026-06-03T20:38:53+00:00

We are presently developing an application, let’s call it APP1 , which uses a

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We are presently developing an application, let’s call it APP1, which uses a SQL Database which have about 800 stored procedures, 600 tables, etc. APP1 was originally created in order to replace another application, APP0, from which we do not have source code but only SQL tables, Stored Procedures, views, etc. Previous programers of APP1 used some DB objects from this same database and added some other objects specific to APP1 because it becomes bigger than APP0. And we do not need APP0 anymore as APP1 does all what we want, and more.

So, now, we are thinking about a way to find out which objects are used by APP1 in order to remove objects which are ONLY used by APP0.

What is the best approach to discover all objects used by APP1 without having to open every single class and form?

Once we will have a complete list of these objects, it will be easy to use a program we bought which detects all dependencies for all SQL Objects specified directly from SQL and remove objects which do not return from any dependencies. Any ideas of how I could get this list without having to go through all our program that have many, many, many classes and forms?

Thanks,

Note : I know, in a perfect world, all calls to PSs and tables should be in a DAL but in the case of the application we’re presently working on … this is not our case! Yippy! (sarcastic yippy) 😉

Note 2 : This application is not using any ORM. So all queries are directly using SqlCommand. So any call to any DB objects are in string format.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You mentioned you have all the Tables, Sprocs & etc from APP0. Presumably there is a BAK of them or you can grab the original SQL objects by installing APP0 on a fresh PC.

    Then use SQL Compare from RedGate to compare the Database that APP1 uses to the original APP0 Database, then you can see which objects you’ve added and can strip out all the redundant APP0 db objects.

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