I want to change the database name. So please help me write a query to find all the stored procedures which use old database name?

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I want to find all the stored procedures refering to the database in the code inside. Please help.

What I have tried:

SELECT Name
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE object_definition(OBJECT_ID) LIKE '%anything%'

Posted 6-Feb-17 20:11pm

Updated 13-Feb-17 23:38pm

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Karthik_Mahalingam 7-Feb-17 2:21am

the query works fine.

dirtyshooter 7-Feb-17 2:30am

It works but not for my requirement.

dirtyshooter 7-Feb-17 2:42am

correct karthik. My bad.

Karthik_Mahalingam 7-Feb-17 3:00am

cool

Richard Deeming 9-Feb-17 6:57am

RedGate's SQL Search[^] is free, and pretty good at searching for strings in database objects.

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Vinay_kr0164 · Answer 1 · 2017-02-09T00:53:00

try this.

select distinct OBJECT_NAME(ID) FROM SYSCOMMENTS WHERE TEXT LIKE '%code%'

Posted 9-Feb-17 0:53am

Member 12999924 · Answer 2 · 2017-02-13T23:38:00

select * from YourDatabaseName.information_schema.routines
where routine_type = 'PROCEDURE'

Posted 13-Feb-17 23:38pm