How do I find all stored procedures that insert, update, or delete records?

Question

Is it possible, without parsing source, to select a list of all sproc names that insert, update, or delete records? I need to create a TSQL utility script that will do this.

Answer 1

Thanks to Cade Roux's answer i was able to get very close with this:

DECLARE @RoleName nvarchar(255)
SET @RoleName = 'READONLYUSER'

DECLARE @ROUTINE_NAME nvarchar(255)
DECLARE RoutineList Cursor FOR
SELECT ROUTINE_NAME
FROM    INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE   (OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)), N'IsSchemaBound') IS NULL OR OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)), N'IsSchemaBound') = 0)
    AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sel%'
    AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sp_upd%'
    AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sp_sel%'
    AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sp_ins%' 
OPEN RoutineList
FETCH NEXT FROM RoutineList 
INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

    EXEC ('EXEC sp_refreshsqlmodule ''' + @ROUTINE_NAME + '''')

    FETCH NEXT FROM RoutineList INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
END
CLOSE RoutineList
DEALLOCATE RoutineList


DECLARE GrantList Cursor FOR
SELECT DISTINCT
    so.name AS ROUTINE_NAME
FROM sysobjects so
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT 
        so.name,
        so2.name AS [table],
        sd.is_updated
        FROM sysobjects so
        INNER JOIN sys.sql_dependencies sd ON so.id = sd.object_id
        INNER JOIN sysobjects so2 ON sd.referenced_major_id = so2.id
        WHERE so.xtype = 'p'
        and is_updated = 1
) Updates ON so.name = Updates.name
WHERE 
    so.xtype = 'p' -- procedure
    AND Updates.name is null
    AND so.name NOT LIKE '%[_]%'
ORDER BY so.name

OPEN GrantList
FETCH NEXT FROM GrantList 
INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

    print 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].['+@ROUTINE_NAME+'] TO ['+@RoleName +']   '  


    FETCH NEXT FROM GrantList INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
END
CLOSE GrantList
DEALLOCATE GrantList