Under which conditions does your query fail to return any information?
I am testing it with table names I know for sure either depend on other tables or have tables that depend on them. However, it always comes back with empty results. I am using SQL Server 2008.

Thanks

create view vwTest as
select t1.field1 + t2.field2 as Calculation from table1 t1 inner join table2 t2 on t1.id = t2.id

Dependencie info should show something like:

Object | Column | Depends On | Depends On Column
——–+—————+—————+——————-
vwTest | Calculation | Table1 | Field1
vwTest | Calculation | Table2 | Field2

I’ve tried sql_expression_dependencies and other metatada views from sqlServer but I haven’t been able to get this info

Because it doen’t link column with dependant columns

how do you ignore those errors, when your procedure contains “select into statement”?

i have been looking around for days and yet no better solution than a try…catch. :-(

any suggestion please?

I have quite often seen that information_schema.routines gives proper dependency relationship where assp_depends returns an incorrect answer. However, as per book online sp_depends will be deprecated, and instead, sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities and sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities are recommended.”

EXEC sp_depends ‘yyour spname’

Appreciate your help. – Thnx

Here it is, I know is a bit old and kind of “artistic” -LOL- I wanted to analyze all kind of objects, but never implemented that part…..

Regards
Gabriel

====FOLLOW SCRIPT====

/* ******************************************************
* *
* Retrieve depending objects on a given table *
* *
**************************************************** */

DECLARE
@ObjectName SYSNAME,
@ObjectType VARCHAR(5),
@ObjectID AS BIGINT

/* Load table name to analyze */
SET @ObjectName=’First’

/* Press F5 */

–SET @ObjectType=’TABLE’ <— Not Implemented

SELECT TOP(1) @ObjectID = object_id
FROM sys.objects
WHERE name = @ObjectName
–AND type = ISNULL(@ObjectType, type)

PRINT @ObjectID

SET NOCOUNT ON ;

WITH DependentObjectCTE (DependentObjectID, DependentObjectName, ReferencedObjectName, ReferencedObjectID)
AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT
sd.object_id,
OBJECT_NAME(sd.object_id),
ReferencedObject = OBJECT_NAME(sd.referenced_major_id),
ReferencedObjectID = sd.referenced_major_id
FROM
sys.sql_dependencies sd
JOIN sys.objects so ON sd.referenced_major_id = so.object_id
WHERE
sd.referenced_major_id = @ObjectID
UNION ALL
SELECT
sd.object_id,
OBJECT_NAME(sd.object_id),
OBJECT_NAME(referenced_major_id),
object_id
FROM
sys.sql_dependencies sd
JOIN DependentObjectCTE do ON sd.referenced_major_id = do.DependentObjectID
WHERE
sd.referenced_major_id sd.object_id
)
SELECT DISTINCT
DependentObjectName
FROM
DependentObjectCTE c

select b.name,b.xtype,a.text from syscomments a (nolock)
inner join sysobjects b (nolock)
on a.id = b.id
where a.text like ‘%Table1%’

in the example above ‘Table1′ is my table name.

Thanks,
Puneet Jaggi

EXEC sp_depends ‘your table’

How can we delete dependent stored procedures. We are cleaning our DB by deleting unwanted objects. But I’m getting dependency’s error. My DB is having around 600 Sp’s and 200 tables. 30% of them are backup copies. Previously we used to create backup of object while modifying that. After modification when we press F5 these backup object also comes under dependency’s list. So how do I delete them.

Regards,
Sanjay