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

Use:

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(m.object_id), m.*
  FROM SYS.SQL_MODULES m
 WHERE m.definition like N'%text_youre_looking_for%'

SYSCOMMENTS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.routines have NVARCHAR(4000) columns. So if "text_youre_looking_for" is used at position 3998, it won't be found. SYSCOMMENTS does have multiple lines, but INFORMATION_SCHEMA.routines truncates.