Find broken objects in SQL Server

Question

Is there a tool that will find all objects in SQL Server (functions, procs, views) that cannot possibly work because they refer to objects that don\'t exist?

Answer 1

Your best bet is to start using a tool like Visual Studio Database Edition. It's role is to manage a database schema. One of the many things it will do is to throw an error when you attempt to build the database project and it contains broken objects. It will of course do much more than this. The tool is free to any user of Visual Studio Team Suite or Visual Studio Developer Edition.