How to Find a Text in SQL Server Stored Procedure

Ameet Parse

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29 Jun 2012CPOL

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This is an alternative for "Find all Stored Procedures having a given text in it"

Introduction

This article describes How to find a Text in Stored Procedure (Checked on SQL Server 2008)

Background

Need to delete or rename a Column Name in Table? 100's of Stored Procedures? Running short on time? Constraints may save you by generating an warning but Stored Procedure Won't!!!

Here is an awesome Trick that may save your time!!!

This applies to non encrypted stored procedues only.

Open SQL Server Management Studio
Make sure that you have permission to access the database objects
Select the Database which has Stored Procedure in which you need to find Text
Click on New Query
Below query searches for Text Product and Order [You can use AND or OR and more]

Using the code

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SQL

SELECT Name as [Stored Procedure Name]
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE '%Product%'
AND OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE '%Code%'

Screen Shot

I am working on Find and Replace version of above example once done will post here. Enjoy

This article was posted on my blog http://www.smartcodar.com/content.php?124-How-to-Find-a-Text-in-SQL-Server-Stored-Procedure added here with some enhancement

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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Ameet Parse

India

I am a Tech Lead / .Net Architect,

I love working with Business Challenges, Requirements

I work mainly for Designing eCommerce Portals Using ASP.Net enabled Frameworks such as Mediachase, zNode and Storefront.

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IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..##alldbs','U') IS NOT NULL begin truncate table ##alldbs drop table ##alldbs end create table ##alldbs ( Server nvarchar(100), DB nvarchar(100), type nvarchar(50), object_name nvarchar(200), text nvarchar(max) ) EXEC sp_msforeachdb N' use [?] insert into ##alldbs select @@servername,DB_NAME()DATABASE_NAME, SSO.type, SSO.name, SM.definition from sys.sysobjects SSO join sys.sql_modules SM on SSO.id = SM.object_id WHERE SM.definition LIKE ''%<YOUR SEARCH STRING>%''' select * from ##alldbs order by DB,object_name,type

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