Find all references to an object in an SQL Server database

Question

I\'m trying to find all references to an object in an SQL Server database.

How can I quickly search? SQL Server Management Studio does not seem to do it. I use http:

Answer 1

In SQL Server 2000 here is a query that can search inside object definitions, supporting search strings of up to 2000 characters. It uses the chunks in the syscomments table.

SELECT O.name, O.xtype
FROM sysobjects O
WHERE EXISTS (
   SELECT *
   FROM
      (
         SELECT
            Chunk = Substring(C1.text, T.Offset, 4000)
                + Coalesce(Substring(C2.text, 1, T.AdditionalLength), '')
         FROM
            syscomments C1
            CROSS JOIN (
               SELECT 1, 0
               UNION ALL
               SELECT 2001, 2000
            ) T (Offset, AdditionalLength)
            LEFT JOIN syscomments C2
               ON C1.id = C2.id
               AND C1.colid + 1 = C2.colid
               AND T.Offset > 1
         WHERE
            O.id = C1.id
      ) C
   WHERE
      Chunk LIKE '%search string%'
);