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

Note the query in this thread finds missing objects, not invalid ones. 
SQL Server doesn't find a referencing object is invalid until you execute it.

Enhancement to that query to handle objects in other schemas as well as types:

SELECT
    '[' + OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(referencing_id) + '].[' + OBJECT_NAME(referencing_id) + ']' 
        AS [this sproc, UDF or VIEW...],
    isnull('[' + referenced_schema_name + '].', '') + '[' + referenced_entity_name + ']' 
        AS [... depends ON this missing entity name]
FROM 
    sys.sql_expression_dependencies
WHERE 
    is_ambiguous = 0 AND 
    (
        (
            [referenced_class_desc] = 'TYPE' and 
            TYPE_ID(
                isnull('[' + referenced_schema_name + '].', '') + 
                '[' + referenced_entity_name + ']'
            ) IS NULL
        ) or
        (   
            [referenced_class_desc] <> 'TYPE' and 
            OBJECT_ID(
                isnull('[' + referenced_schema_name + '].', '') + 
                '[' + referenced_entity_name + ']'
            ) IS NULL
        )
    )
ORDER BY 
    '[' + OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(referencing_id) + '].[' + OBJECT_NAME(referencing_id) + ']',
    isnull('[' + referenced_schema_name + '].', '') + '[' + referenced_entity_name + ']'