Find All References to View

Question

I\'ve got various databases, and what to be sure I am removing something (a view in this case) that is truly orphaned. Is the the correct SQL to be using:

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Answer 1

I am not sure but i guess you can use something like this if your view is used in some stored procedure

SELECT *  
FROM syscomments c  
INNER JOIN sysobjects o ON c.id =o.id 
WHERE text LIKE '%my_view_name%' AND xtype ='p'

Answer 2

Your method is not fully correct. Read this article:

http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1294

Your method will not return any result if another view uses this view.

SQL Server 2008 has special view (sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities), here it is not that easy.

Answer 3

You have one option only.

select
    object_name(m.object_id), m.*
from
    sys.sql_modules m
where
    m.definition like N'%my_view_name%'

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