RE: Searching stored procedure for table name but ignoring comments

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November 28, 2010 at 9:29 am

~~Wouldn't a search of dependencies tell you?~~

{edit} Bad suggestion on my part. :blush: Like Steve says below, it's NOT 100% guaranteed. It's always worked for me in the past but that's only because I (apparently) got lucky and followed "the rules". I knew that dynamic SQL wouldn't register but I didn't know the "fault" induced by deferred naming, etc.

See sys.sql_dependencies in Books Online for more info on why a dependency may or may not exist.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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