Question

We have a stored procedure that uses UDFs. We need to modify the content of these UDFs on the fly. Yeah, I know, I know… Not my choice. This is exactly what we are tying to do:

1. Read the contents of a UDF
2. Modify the contents and create a new UDF
3. Use the UDF in an executesql statement

Is there a way to get the contents of a udf into a varchar (or nvarchar) that I can then modify using string functions?

Answer 1

select object_definition(object_id('UDFName'))

Is there a way to get the contents of
a udf into a varchar (or nvarchar)
that I can then modify using string
functions?

declare @str nvarchar(max) 

-- get function definition to @str
select @str = object_definition(object_id('UDFName'))

-- Modify definition
set @str = replace(@str, 'CREATE FUNCTION', 'ALTER FUNCTION')

-- execute alter function
exec (@str)