Finding stored procedure table dependencies

By : Steve Eichert - Sql Server  |    On : 2003 June 11  


Tag : Database,SQL

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Recently one of my co-workers dropped me an IM asking how he could find what stored procedures depended on a certain table.  After a little digging we came up with the following query which will return a listing of stored procedures that depend on a particular table (T_TableName).  selectdistinct so.name fromsyscomments sc inner joinsysobjects so on sc.id = so.id where xtype = 'P' AND charindex('T_TableName', text) > 0It would be cool if within SqlBuddy, VS.NET, SQL Enterprise Manager, (name your favorit...

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