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How to search all your objects for specific phrase/word

Useful Stored Procedures

How to search all your objects for specific phrase/word

by  hmckillop  Posted    (Edited  )
Use the proc below and execute on your master database, then anytime you are looking for a specific word, variable, table, fieldname or whatever you need, you then can use this proc to find it.


CREATE PROC sp_search_code
(
@SearchStr varchar(100),
@RowsReturned int = NULL OUT
)
AS
/*
To search your database code for the keyword 'unauthorized':
EXEC sp_search_code 'unauthorized'

To search your database code for the keyword 'FlowerOrders' and also find out the number of hits:
DECLARE @Hits int
EXEC sp_search_code 'FlowerOrders', @Hits OUT
SELECT 'Found ' + LTRIM(STR(@Hits)) + ' object(s) containing this keyword' AS Result
*************************************************************************************************/
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON

SELECT DISTINCT USER_NAME(o.uid) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(c.id) AS 'Object name',
CASE
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsReplProc') = 1
THEN 'Replication stored procedure'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsExtendedProc') = 1
THEN 'Extended stored procedure'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsProcedure') = 1
THEN 'Stored Procedure'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTrigger') = 1
THEN 'Trigger'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTableFunction') = 1
THEN 'Table-valued function'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsScalarFunction') = 1
THEN 'Scalar-valued function'
WHEN OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsInlineFunction') = 1
THEN 'Inline function'
END AS 'Object type',
'EXEC sp_helptext ''' + USER_NAME(o.uid) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(c.id) + '''' AS 'Run this command to see the object text'
FROM syscomments c
INNER JOIN
sysobjects o
ON c.id = o.id
WHERE c.text LIKE '%' + @SearchStr + '%' AND
encrypted = 0 AND
(
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsReplProc') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsExtendedProc') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsProcedure') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTrigger') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsTableFunction') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsScalarFunction') = 1 OR
OBJECTPROPERTY(c.id, 'IsInlineFunction') = 1
)

ORDER BY 'Object type', 'Object name'

SET @RowsReturned = @@ROWCOUNT
END
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