Tips and Tricks for our SQL Users. When should you utilize this query?
Tips & Tricks | Aspect Consulting | 27 November 2020
Your boss has asked you to make changes to an application that will affect an MS SQL Server database, and first needs to know the impact analysis of those changes before any work is performed.
The SolutionUtilize this simple Find All query to help you find all impacted objects in your database with minimal effort.
Let’s say you need to find all occurrences of “status” in your database. Click to view query syntax that will find all objects (tables, stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, keys, and default values) that include the string “status” somewhere in the name or contents of the object, and provide a count of those occurrences.
DECLARE @searchString varchar(500)
SET @searchString = ‘status’ SELECT rs.[Name] , rs.[Type] , rs.[xtype] , COUNT([TextMatch]) as ‘Number of References’ FROM ( SELECT so.[Name] , so.[Type] , so.[xtype] , so.[Name] as ‘TextMatch’ FROM sysobjects so WHERE so.[name] IS NOT NULL AND so.[Name] LIKE ‘%’ + @searchString + ‘%’ AND ( so.[Type] = ‘U’ — User Table OR so.[Type] = ‘P’ — Stored Procedure OR so.[Type] = ‘V’ — View OR so.[Type] = ‘FN’ — User Defined Function OR so.[Type] = ‘TR’ — Trigger OR so.[Type] = ‘K’ — Primary Key OR so.[Type] = ‘F’ — Foreign Key OR so.[Type] = ‘DF’ — Default Value ) UNION SELECT so.[Name] , so.[Type] , so.[xtype] , sc.[text] as ‘TextMatch’ FROM sysobjects so JOIN syscomments sc ON so.[id] = sc.[id] WHERE so.[name] IS NOT NULL AND sc.[text] LIKE ‘%’ + @searchString + ‘%’ AND ( so.[Type] = ‘U’ — User Table OR so.[Type] = ‘P’ — Stored Procedure OR so.[Type] = ‘V’ — View OR so.[Type] = ‘FN’ — User Defined Function OR so.[Type] = ‘TR’ — Trigger OR so.[Type] = ‘K’ — Primary Key OR so.[Type] = ‘F’ — Foreign Key OR so.[Type] = ‘DF’ — Default Value ) ) rs GROUP BY rs.[Name], rs.[Type], rs.[xtype] ORDER BY rs.[Type], rs.[name]
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