Searching in SQL Management Studio 2005

Question

Is there a way to search for text within stored procedures? For example I want to find out if a particular table is being referenced by any stored procedure.

Answer 1

Red Gate has a free tool called Sql Search that I rather like. It keeps an index so that after its first search, it is very fast (and even the first one is pretty good...). It can search for text in procs as well as table and view definitions, etc. There are some filtering features to make it a little easier to use. And the search results are displayed in a very useful manner, with the full text of the object and the search text highlighted.