Comments on: SQLAuthority News – Follow up on – Replace a Column Name in Multiple Stored Procedure all together

By: eDronen

eDronen — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:08:54 +0000

Hi PinalDave –

In your previous post the “Alter to” is not available in the picture. Do you know why this is grayed out, or not available as an option?

I thought it was permissions, but gave myself db_owner of the database and the resulting menu still appears the same.

Any ideas how to script the objects as “Alter to”?

Any feedback is much appreciated.

Thank you,
Eric

By: Hardik Turakhia

Hardik Turakhia — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:42:44 +0000

I need to search all content of my database object(only SPs) but the challenge is i have to ignore the commented part??
The same thing i have to do for almost 60 DBs and each DB approx contain at least 300 SPs.
Any good way to do this??

By: visakh murukesan

visakh murukesan — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:16:38 +0000

This has a limitation. It wont return any dependency where object has been used inside a dynamic sql string

see this small example

CREATE PROCEDURE proctest1
AS

EXEC(‘SELECT * FROM YourTable’)
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE proctest1
AS

SELECT * FROM YourTable
GO

–finding dependency using two conventional methods
sp_depends ‘YourTable’

SELECT ‘EXEC sp_helptext [' + referencing_schema_name + '.' + referencing_entity_name + ']‘
FROM sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities(‘YourTable’,'OBJECT’)

both of the above doesnt return proctest as table was used inside dynamic string in it. In such cases I rely upon below query

select definition from sys.sql_modules where definition like ‘% Employee%’

and I’ve blogged about that as well here

http://visakhm.blogspot.com/2012/03/advantages-of-using-syssqlmodules-view.html