List of Stored Procedure from Table

Question

I have a huge database with 100's of tables and stored procedures. Using SQL Server 2005, how can I get a list of stored procedures that are doing an insert or update operation on a given table.

Answer 1

select
  so.name,
  sc.text
from
  sysobjects so inner join syscomments sc on so.id = sc.id
where
  sc.text like '%INSERT INTO xyz%'
  or sc.text like '%UPDATE xyz%'

This will give you a list of all stored procedure contents with INSERT or UPDATE in them for a particular table (you can obviously tweak the query to suit). Also longer procedures will be broken across multiple rows in the returned recordset so you may need to do a bit of manual sifting through the results.

Edit: Tweaked query to return SP name as well. Also, note the above query will return any UDFs as well as SPs.

Answer 2

sys.sql_dependencies has a list of entities with dependencies, including tables and columns that a sproc includes in queries. See this post for an example of a query that gets out dependencies. The code snippet below will get a list of table/column dependencies by stored procedure

select sp.name       as sproc_name
      ,t.name        as table_name
      ,c.name        as column_name
 from sys.sql_dependencies d
 join sys.objects t
   on t.object_id = d.referenced_major_id
 join sys.objects sp
   on sp.object_id = d.object_id
 join sys.columns c
   on c.object_id = t.object_id
  and c.column_id = d.referenced_minor_id
where sp.type = 'P'

Answer 3

Use sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities

Note that sp_depends is obsoleted.

MSDN Reference

Answer 4

You could try exporting all of your stored procedures into a text file and then use a simple search.

A more advanced technique would be to use a regexp search to find all SELECT FROM and INSERT FROM entries.

Answer 5

This seems to work:

select
so.name as [proc],
so2.name as [table],
sd.is_updated
from sysobjects so
inner join sys.sql_dependencies sd on so.id = sd.object_id
inner join sysobjects so2 on sd.referenced_major_id = so2.id
where so.xtype = 'p' -- procedure
and is_updated = 1 -- proc updates table, or at least, I think that's what this means

Answer 6

If you download sp_search_code from Vyaskn's website it will allow you to find any text within your database objects.

http://vyaskn.tripod.com/sql_server_search_stored_procedure_code.htm

Answer 7

SELECT Distinct SO.Name
FROM sysobjects SO (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN syscomments SC (NOLOCK) on SO.Id = SC.ID
AND SO.Type = 'P'
AND (SC.Text LIKE '%UPDATE%' OR SC.Text LIKE '%INSERT%')
ORDER BY SO.Name

This link was used as a resource for the SP search.