Monday, July 14, 2008

Search text in SPs @ SQL Server 2005

SELECT Name
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(object_id) LIKE '%foobar%'

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(object_id)
FROM sys.sql_modules
WHERE Definition LIKE '%foobar%'
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, 'IsProcedure') = 1

SELECT ROUTINE_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_DEFINITION LIKE '%foobar%'
AND ROUTINE_TYPE = 'PROCEDURE'

In SQL Server 2000
Let's say you are searching for 'foobar' in all your stored procedures. You can do this using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES view, or syscomments:

SELECT ROUTINE_NAME, ROUTINE_DEFINITION
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_DEFINITION LIKE '%foobar%'
AND ROUTINE_TYPE='PROCEDURE'

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