Sql Server Query to Search any Text in All Stored Procedures, Views and Functions

Introduction: In this article I am going to explain How to find any text/string in all stored procedures or views or user defined functions.


Description:  While working with sql server database it may be required to search for specific text in all stored procedures, view or functions for many reasons. For example we can list all the stored procedure where the specified table is being used or we can even search for any column name in all stored procedures, views and functions to check their dependency.

 Implementation: Let’s write a query to get the desired result

Let's try to search text 'Email'

DECLARE @searchText NVARCHAR(100)='Email'
--Search the text ‘Email’ in sp, view and functions
SELECT DISTINCT S.NAME AS [Schema],O.NAME AS [Object Name],O.TYPE_DESC AS [Type]
FROM SYS.SQL_MODULES M INNER JOIN SYS.OBJECTS O ON M.OBJECT_ID=O.OBJECT_ID
INNER JOIN SYS.SCHEMAS S ON O.SCHEMA_ID=S.SCHEMA_ID WHERE M.DEFINITION
LIKE '%' + @searchText + '%' ORDER BY S.NAME

Note: Pass any table name or column name or any text in @searchText variable to search in all stored procedures, views and user defined functions

Result
Schema
Object
Type
dbo
fnCheckEmailDuplicacy
SQL_SCALAR_FUNCTION
dbo
spEmployeeData
SQL_STORED_PROCEDURE
dbo
spSaveEmployeeDetails
SQL_STORED_PROCEDURE
dbo
vwEmployeeDetails
VIEW

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