Text search in stored proc SQL Server - sql-server

Does any one know the script to use for text search in SQL Server? I would like to search a text from all the stored proc inside the SQL Server, does anyone know what is the script I should use?


INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES or syscomments are not reliable.
The text field is nvarchar(4000) for both (over multiple rows syscomments only). So your search text can be lost on the boundary for a syscomments or never found for INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
sys.sql_modules.definition is nvarchar(max)
SELECT
OBJECT_NAME(object_id)
FROM
sys.sql_modules
WHERE
definition LIKE '%mytext%'
Edit, Oct 2011
Bringing this answer up to date.
Red Gate SQL Search is a free SSMS plug in that is quite useful.


You can use as well:
select distinct object_name(id) from sys.syscomments where text like '%SearchTextHere%'


Updated: There are several equivalent ways. Here's one:
SELECT
OBJECT_NAME(object_id)
FROM
sys.sql_modules
WHERE
Definition LIKE '%searchtext%'
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, 'IsProcedure') = 1


Are you wanting to search for text through the stored procedures themselves?
Or table data?
If table data, how about LIKE?

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List of available keywords for SQL Server

It seems I can't use SHOW command in SQL Server like SHOW COLUMNS FROM... or SHOW TABLES.
Is there somewhere a list of all the commands that are available so I know what I can use ?

To get Table and Column information
Select * From INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
Select * From INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables
Reserved Words
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/reserved-keywords-transact-sql
Stripped and modified from a validation routine
Declare #Reserved table (Word varchar(100))
Insert Into #Reserved values
('ADD'),('ALL'),('ALTER'),('AND'),('ANY'),('AS'),('ASC'),('AUTHORIZATION'),('BACKUP'),('BEGIN'),('BETWEEN'),('BREAK'),('BROWSE'),('BULK'),('BY'),
('CASCADE'),('CASE'),('CHECK'),('CHECKPOINT'),('CLOSE'),('CLUSTERED'),('COALESCE'),('COLLATE'),('COLUMN'),('COMMIT'),('COMPUTE'),('CONSTRAINT'),
('CONTAINS'),('CONTAINSTABLE'),('CONTINUE'),('CONVERT'),('CREATE'),('CROSS'),('CURRENT'),('CURRENT_DATE'),('CURRENT_TIME'),('CURRENT_TIMESTAMP'),
('CURRENT_USER'),('CURSOR'),('DATABASE'),('DBCC'),('DEALLOCATE'),('DECLARE'),('DEFAULT'),('DELETE'),('DENY'),('DESC'),('DISK'),('DISTINCT'),
('DISTRIBUTED'),('DOUBLE'),('DROP'),('DUMP'),('ELSE'),('END'),('ERRLVL'),('ESCAPE'),('EXCEPT'),('EXEC'),('EXECUTE'),('EXISTS'),('EXIT'),('EXTERNAL'),
('FETCH'),('FILE'),('FILLFACTOR'),('FOR'),('FOREIGN'),('FREETEXT'),('FREETEXTTABLE'),('FROM'),('FULL'),('FUNCTION'),('GOTO'),('GRANT'),('GROUP'),
('HAVING'),('HOLDLOCK'),('IDENTITY'),('IDENTITY_INSERT'),('IDENTITYCOL'),('IF'),('IN'),('INDEX'),('INNER'),('INSERT'),('INTERSECT'),('INTO'),('IS'),
('JOIN'),('KEY'),('KILL'),('LEFT'),('LIKE'),('LINENO'),('LOAD'),('MERGE'),('NATIONAL'),('NOCHECK'),('NONCLUSTERED'),('NOT'),('NULL'),('NULLIF'),
('OF'),('OFF'),('OFFSETS'),('ON'),('OPEN'),('OPENDATASOURCE'),('OPENQUERY'),('OPENROWSET'),('OPENXML'),('OPTION'),('OR'),('ORDER'),('OUTER'),('OVER'),
('PERCENT'),('PIVOT'),('PLAN'),('PRECISION'),('PRIMARY'),('PRINT'),('PROC'),('PROCEDURE'),('PUBLIC'),('RAISERROR'),('READ'),('READTEXT'),('RECONFIGURE'),
('REFERENCES'),('REPLICATION'),('RESTORE'),('RESTRICT'),('RETURN'),('REVERT'),('REVOKE'),('RIGHT'),('ROLLBACK'),('ROWCOUNT'),('ROWGUIDCOL'),('RULE'),
('SAVE'),('SCHEMA'),('SECURITYAUDIT'),('SELECT'),('SEMANTICKEYPHRASETABLE'),('SEMANTICSIMILARITYDETAILSTABLE'),('SEMANTICSIMILARITYTABLE'),('SESSION_USER'),
('SET'),('SETUSER'),('SHUTDOWN'),('SOME'),('STATISTICS'),('SYSTEM_USER'),('TABLE'),('TABLESAMPLE'),('TEXTSIZE'),('THEN'),('TO'),('TOP'),('TRAN'),('TRANSACTION'),
('TRIGGER'),('TRUNCATE'),('TRY_CONVERT'),('TSEQUAL'),('UNION'),('UNIQUE'),('UNPIVOT'),('UPDATE'),('UPDATETEXT'),('USE'),('USER'),('VALUES'),('VARYING'),
('VIEW'),('WAITFOR'),('WHEN'),('WHERE'),('WHILE'),('WITH'),('WITHIN GROUP'),('WRITETEXT')
Select A.*
From INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS A
Join #Reserved
on Column_Name = Word

The ISO standard is to query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views for meta-data information. A more concise way is to list table/view columns in SQL Server is sp_help:
EXEC sp_help 'your-object-name-here';
In SSMS, you can highlight the desired object name in a query window and press ALT+F1 to execute sp_help for that object. With SQL Operations Studio, ALT-F12 will peek the object definition.

SELECT Distinct TABLE_NAME FROM information_schema.TABLES
Hope this helps and is similar for columns. Plus, I haven't seen any such list till now but surely will add in future once I see it.

Stored procedure in Microsoft SQL Server

How do I find the query of a stored procedure? Is there any way to view it?

If you are using SQL Server Management Studio, under the database tree, choose Programmability | Stored Procedures. Just right click on the procedure name and click modify.
But the database role will also affect your action.

There are many ways to do this one simple way is
sp_helptext 'Your_SP_Name'
or
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID('Your_SP_Name'))

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(id)
FROM syscomments
WHERE [text] LIKE '%%'
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id, 'IsProcedure') = 1
GROUP BY OBJECT_NAME(id)
Try This Its Worked...

How to find the stored procedures acting on a table in SQL Server 2012?

I have a table in a database. The fields of the table are being updating by some stored procedure from some other table. Is there any possibility that I can find the stored procedures which are acting on a particular table???

If you want to know which stored procedures are likely to touch your table, you could search that in sys.procedures something on the lines of:
select * from sys.procedures
where object_definition(object_id) like '%tablename%'
-- or probe information_schema
select * from information_schema.routines
where routine_definition like '%tablename%'
Object_Definition
Returns the Transact-SQL source text of the definition of a specified object.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176090(v=sql.105).aspx
When we look into sys.procedures, there'll be a field called object_id. Each object in SQL Server has an ID. object_definition will retrieve definition of that object - in our case, text of the procedure will be retrieved.

Check out the sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities view.
But this won't work if the SP build dynamic SQL to access the table (not schema bound). You might need to use trace or SQL Profiler to help out.

Maybe you use this query. You got a list store procedure in actual database
SELECT ROUTINE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE= 'PROCEDURE'

How to grep SQL Server stored procedures?

I would like to run a standard grep over all stored procedures in a given SQL Server database (assume 2005 or later). I have found a variety of simple queries to list the names of stored procedures containing a specific object, e.g.
SELECT Name
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE '%table_I_want_to_find%'
But what I really want is, like grep, to list the specific lines in the identified stored procedures (so I do not have to manually open each one and see if it is what I am looking for).
I am open to solutions in T-SQL or PowerShell, or even an off-the-shelf utility.

Use SQL Search from Red Gate. It's a free tool and is fantastic.

I am brand new to SQL Server, but the following seems to work great and has proved itself to be quite useful already. I am using SQL Server 2008.
select ROUTINE_SCHEMA, ROUTINE_NAME, ROUTINE_TYPE, ROUTINE_BODY, ROUTINE_DEFINITION
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
where ROUTINE_DEFINITION like '%searchtext%'
order by ROUTINE_SCHEMA, ROUTINE_NAME, ROUTINE_TYPE, ROUTINE_DEFINITION;
For completeness, here are some similar queries you'll probably want to know about:
exec sp_help 'myTable'
select name
from sys.all_views
order by name;
select TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, TABLE_TYPE
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
order by TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, TABLE_TYPE;
select TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
where COLUMN_NAME = 'myColumn'
order by TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME;

You could use SMO to dump the stored procedure DDL to files, and then use grep on them.
There are some examples of extracting the DDL here (called Scripting).

Count Stored Procedures in Database?

How can i count the number of stored procedures in my database and is it a bad practice to have too many stored procedures?

Select count(*) from sysobjects where xtype = 'P'

Select count(1) from information_schema.routines
where routine_type = 'PROCEDURE'

you may want to exclude system stored procedures from your count
One way would be to call:
select count(*) from sysobjects
where xtype = 'P'
and category = 0
and left(name,2) <> 'sp'
That is assuming that you do not prefix your procedures with sp

You need as many as your application requires. Keeping procedures small and simple is a good thing.
If you're using sql 2005, a visual way to see your proc count is to navigate in SSMS to your stored procedure node under programmability. Click View-Object Explorer Details and a count of objects will be displayed on the right.

This will exclude the ones that sometimes get created when using the diagramming tool (they will start with dt_)
SELECT * FROM information_schema.routines
WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(SPECIFIC_NAME),'IsMSShipped') =1
AND routine_type = 'PROCEDURE'

Below is the query you can use:
select count(*) from sysobjects where xtype='P'
If all your db access is mandated to be through SP's, then the sky is the limit.

If you use them, then there really is no such thing as "too many".
I had a developer concerned his stored procs were using too much space in the database, so I had to actually calculate the total SIZE of all stored procs. Good answer for that here. The upshot was that the size of the stored procs together was responsible for maybe .001% of the total size of the database.

Here is a simple query you can use:
SELECT COUNT(object_id) FROM sys.procedures

With this query, you'll get the data amount of the actual text in all the procs in the DB.
The results is in bytes, so do the math for a MB results (1024*1024).
divide it by 1048576
SELECT SUM(DATALENGTH(sm.definition))/1048576 as 'Total Proc text size'
FROM sys.sql_modules sm
INNER JOIN sys.sysobjects so ON sm.object_id = so.id
WHERE so.type = 'P'

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