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mdelgado
Posting Yak Master

141 Posts

Posted - 2008-04-25 : 10:51:32
Hello team.

I have an issue I'm hoping you can help me with.

I have very large sql server with 15 databases and thousands of tables. We have an "employee" table where we have historically been joining to the "EmployeeName" field in procs, views, etc.(bad practice, I know). I would like to now go back and make things right. I would like to identify ALL procs and views that have a join on the "EmployeeName" field, and modify it to use the "employeeid" field. I would like a script or a suggestion that would help me identify all the places where I would need to make this change.

I thought of querying the syscomments table, but the joins are not always laid out the same way so I know I wouldn't be able to catch all of them. Maybe using profiler to capture all statements executed and have them trigger an email to a DB developer every time? I don't know... Suggestions?

Many Thanks

spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2008-04-25 : 13:59:47
moved from script library.

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spirit1
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Posted - 2008-04-25 : 14:00:30
take a look at sys.sysdepends

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