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Search Particular Text used in Stored Procedure in Sql Server

Posted by Viral Sarvaiya on September 10, 2012

Few days ago I get very tedious job in database,
I have to search all stored procedure which have use one particular table.

I get following 1 option of query from sys table of sqlserver

SELECT ROUTINE_NAME, ROUTINE_DEFINITION FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_DEFINITION LIKE '%TBL_NAME%'    AND ROUTINE_TYPE='PROCEDURE'
SELECT Name
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE '%TBL_NAME%'

but this query only table table’s name, if We want particular string not table then this query will fail so below stored procedure will work.

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_search_code]
(
@SearchStr  varchar(100),
@RowsReturned int = NULL OUT
)
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON

SELECT DISTINCT USER_NAME(o.uid) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(c.id) AS 'Object name',
CASE
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsReplProc') = 1
THEN 'Replication stored procedure'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsExtendedProc') = 1
THEN 'Extended stored procedure'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsProcedure') = 1
THEN 'Stored Procedure'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTrigger') = 1
THEN 'Trigger'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTableFunction') = 1
THEN 'Table-valued function'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsScalarFunction') = 1
THEN 'Scalar-valued function'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsInlineFunction') = 1
THEN 'Inline function'
END AS 'Object type',

'EXEC sp_helptext ''' + USER_NAME(o.uid) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(c.id) + '''' AS 'Run this command to see the object text'

FROM syscomments c
INNER JOIN
sysobjects o
ON c.id = o.id
WHERE c.text LIKE '%' + @SearchStr + '%' AND
encrypted = 0    AND
(
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsReplProc') = 1  OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsExtendedProc') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsProcedure') = 1  OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTrigger') = 1  OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTableFunction') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsScalarFunction') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsInlineFunction') = 1
)

ORDER BY 'Object type', 'Object name'

SET @RowsReturned = @@ROWCOUNT
END

Run this query as like below

exec sp_search_code 'SearchText'

You will get require output of list of stored procedure name.

In this Stored Procedure i take one output parameter for check number of rows return by Stored Procedure.

Hope this will help you.

Thanks.

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