Comments on: SQL SERVER – Find Column Used in Stored Procedure – Search Stored Procedure for Column Name – Part 2

By: raina

raina — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:54:53 +0000

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to get the list of all the columns used in a stored procedure and also their table names?

By: sabeel

sabeel — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:48:29 +0000

This script search only stored procedure for specified column.
– Search in Stored Procedure Only
SELECT DISTINCT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID),
object_definition(OBJECT_ID)
FROM sys.Procedures
WHERE object_definition(OBJECT_ID) LIKE ‘%’ + ‘BusinessEntityID’ + ‘%’

if the column is alias in the stored procedure . how we can search it

By: Nitu

Nitu — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:14:30 +0000

Very useful
thanks for sharing

By: SQLMind

SQLMind — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:20:16 +0000

Very informative…I learnt something new today :)

By: Kalyanasundaram.K

Kalyanasundaram.K — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:43:38 +0000

Hi Gatej,

using this below script to check a column and its table. Do few changes in this script to check a column in more than one table in database.

–Searching for Empoloyee table and ChangeDate column together
SELECT Name FROM sys.procedures
WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE ‘%Empoloyee %’
AND OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE ‘%ChangeDate%’
GO

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/09/03/sql-server-2005-search-stored-procedure-code-search-stored-procedure-text/

By: Gatej Alexandru

Gatej Alexandru — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:25:27 +0000

Hello

I have one question: How can you detect your column if you have multiple tables that contain a column with your searched name

By: Kalyanasundaram.K

Kalyanasundaram.K — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:48:22 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I had noted the script and test it all related to search in Stored procedures and other objects. It is very useful to learn and minimize developers confusion to verify all the procedures. Earlier i am only using sp_help only.