Simple way to programmatically get all stored procedures

Question

Is there a way to get stored procedures from a SQL Server 2005 Express database using C#? I would like to export all of this data in the same manner that you can script it o

Answer 1

begin
--select column_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_NAME='Products' 
--Declare the Table variable 
DECLARE @GeneratedStoredProcedures TABLE
(
        Number INT IDENTITY(1,1), --Auto incrementing Identity column
        name VARCHAR(300) --The string value
)

--Decalre a variable to remember the position of the current delimiter
DECLARE @CurrentDelimiterPositionVar INT 
declare @sqlCode varchar(max)
--Decalre a variable to remember the number of rows in the table
DECLARE @Count INT

--Populate the TABLE variable using some logic
INSERT INTO @GeneratedStoredProcedures SELECT name FROM sys.procedures where name like 'procGen_%'

--Initialize the looper variable
SET @CurrentDelimiterPositionVar = 1

--Determine the number of rows in the Table
SELECT @Count=max(Number) from @GeneratedStoredProcedures

--A variable to hold the currently selected value from the table
DECLARE @CurrentValue varchar(300);

--Loop through until all row processing is done
WHILE @CurrentDelimiterPositionVar <= @Count
BEGIN
    --Load current value from the Table
    SELECT @CurrentValue = name FROM @GeneratedStoredProcedures WHERE Number = @CurrentDelimiterPositionVar 
    --Process the current value
    --print @CurrentValue
    set @sqlCode = 'drop procedure ' + @CurrentValue
    print @sqlCode
    --exec (@sqlCode)


    --Increment loop counter
    SET @CurrentDelimiterPositionVar = @CurrentDelimiterPositionVar + 1;
END

end

Answer 2

;WITH ROUTINES AS (
    -- CANNOT use INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES because of 4000 character limit
    SELECT o.type_desc AS ROUTINE_TYPE
            ,o.[name] AS ROUTINE_NAME
            ,m.definition AS ROUTINE_DEFINITION
    FROM sys.sql_modules AS m
    INNER JOIN sys.objects AS o
        ON m.object_id = o.object_id
)
SELECT *
FROM ROUTINES

Answer 3

If you open up a can of reflector on sqlmetal.exe (a stand-alone part of LINQ-to-SQL that generates code from a database), you can see the SQL statements it uses to get a list of all stored procedures and functions. The SQL is similar, but not identical, to the one in this answer.

Answer 4

This is a SQL that I have just tested and used in MSSQL

SELECT NAME from SYS.PROCEDURES 
order by name

In case that you need to look for a specific name or substring/text

SELECT NAME from SYS.PROCEDURES 
where name like '%<TEXT_TO_LOOK_FOR>%'
order by name

Replace with exactly that for example:

SELECT NAME from SYS.PROCEDURES 
where name like '%CUSTOMER%'
order by name

And calling

EXEC sp_HelpText SPNAME 

for each stored procedure, you'll get a record set with one line of text per row

Answer 5

public static void GenerateTableScript()
    {
        Server databaseServer = default(Server);//DataBase Server Name
        databaseServer = new Server("yourDatabase Server Name");
        string strFileName = @"C:\Images\Your FileName_" + DateTime.Today.ToString("yyyyMMdd") + ".sql"; //20120720`enter code here
        if (System.IO.File.Exists(strFileName))
            System.IO.File.Delete(strFileName);
        List<SqlSmoObject> list = new List<SqlSmoObject>();
        Scripter scripter = new Scripter(databaseServer);
        Database dbUltimateSurvey = databaseServer.Databases["YourDataBaseName"];//DataBase Name
        //Table scripting Writing
        DataTable dataTable1 = dbUltimateSurvey.EnumObjects(DatabaseObjectTypes.Table);
        foreach (DataRow drTable in dataTable1.Rows)
        {
            //string strTableSchema = (string)drTable["Schema"];
            //if (strTableSchema == "dbo")
            //    continue;
            Table dbTable = (Table)databaseServer.GetSmoObject(new Urn((string)drTable["Urn"]));
            if (!dbTable.IsSystemObject)
                if (dbTable.Name.Contains("SASTool_"))
                    list.Add(dbTable);
        }
        scripter.Server = databaseServer;
        scripter.Options.IncludeHeaders = true;
        scripter.Options.SchemaQualify = true;
        scripter.Options.ToFileOnly = true;
        scripter.Options.FileName = strFileName;
        scripter.Options.DriAll = true;
        scripter.Options.AppendToFile = true;
        scripter.Script(list.ToArray());//Table Script completed
        //Store Procedures scripting Writing
        list = new List<SqlSmoObject>();
        DataTable dataTable = dbUltimateSurvey.EnumObjects(DatabaseObjectTypes.StoredProcedure);
        foreach (DataRow row in dataTable.Rows)
        {
            string sSchema = (string)row["Schema"];
            if (sSchema == "sys" || sSchema == "INFORMATION_SCHEMA")
                continue;
            StoredProcedure sp = (StoredProcedure)databaseServer.GetSmoObject(
               new Urn((string)row["Urn"]));
            if (!sp.IsSystemObject)
                if (sp.Name.Contains("custom_"))
                    list.Add(sp);
        }
        scripter.Server = databaseServer;
        scripter.Options.IncludeHeaders = true;
        scripter.Options.SchemaQualify = true;
        scripter.Options.ToFileOnly = true;
        scripter.Options.FileName = strFileName;
        scripter.Options.DriAll = true;
        scripter.Options.AppendToFile = true;
        scripter.Script(list.ToArray());   // Stored procedure Script completed
    }

Answer 6

You can write C# code to run the following query on your database.

Select * from sys.procedures