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

My co-worker graciously provided me with this one recently. It does some similar searching as others have noted, but with a little more added in.

DECLARE
 @chvStringToFind varchar(256), /* String to find */
 @chrObjectType char(2),--=null, /* Only look for objects of this type */
 @intNbCharToExtract int
 --=50 /* Number of characters to extract before and after the string to find */
 --exec DBA_FindStringInDB @chvStringToFind='sp_helpdia', @chrObjectType=null, @intNbCharToExtract=50
 SET @chvStringToFind = 'EnterSearchTextHere'  -- Change this to search
 SET @chrObjectType = NULL
 SET @intNbCharToExtract = 50

 SELECT t.Name, t.TypeDescription, t.CreationDate, t.ModificationDate,
 '...' + SUBSTRING
 (
 t.ObjectDefinition,
 CHARINDEX(@chvStringToFind, t.ObjectDefinition) - @intNbCharToExtract,
 LEN(@chvStringToFind) + (@intNbCharToExtract*2)
 ) + '...' AS Extract
 FROM
 (
 SELECT o.name AS Name, 
 o.type_desc AS TypeDescription, 
 o.create_date AS CreationDate, o.modify_date AS ModificationDate,
 OBJECT_DEFINITION(object_id) AS ObjectDefinition
 FROM sys.objects o
 WHERE 
 ((o.type IN ('AF', 'FN', 'IF', 'P', 'TF', 'TT', 'U', 'V', 'X') AND @chrObjectType IS NULL) OR o.type = @chrObjectType)
 AND OBJECT_DEFINITION(o.object_id) LIKE '%' + @chvStringToFind + '%'
 ) AS t
 ORDER BY TypeDescription, Name