How to Find the list of Stored Procedures which affect a particular column?

Question

Im working on this large DB which has a lot of the business knowledge embedded in the SPs[I know!] and there is a lot of chaining between the SPs. i.e one stored proc callin

Answer 1

From system view sys.sql_dependencies you can get dependencies at column level.

DECLARE @Schema SYSNAME
DECLARE @Table SYSNAME
DECLARE @Column SYSNAME

SET @Schema = 'dbo'
SET @Table = 'TableName'
SET @Column = 'ColumnName'

SELECT o.name
FROM sys.sql_dependencies AS d
  INNER JOIN sys.all_objects AS o ON o.object_id = d.object_id
  INNER JOIN sys.all_objects AS ro ON ro.object_id = d.referenced_major_id
  INNER JOIN sys.all_columns AS c ON c.object_id = ro.object_id AND c.column_id = d.referenced_minor_id
WHERE (SCHEMA_NAME(ro.schema_id)=@Schema) 
  and o.type_desc = 'SQL_STORED_PROCEDURE'
  and ro.name = @Table
  and c.name = @Column
GROUP BY o.name