SQL Server 2012 :: Finding Unused Stored Procedures
Mar 3, 2014
How do you find stale stored procedures ?
In a scenario where a developer created a slight modification of a stored procedure because he was afraid of breaking something else and took the easy way out, and a few more later down the line, multiple versions of a stored proc. doing slightly different things are just laying around.
"Last used" would be useful piece of information to determine the most recent date a stored procedure was called, either by the application itself or by another stored procedure itself called by the application.
Any stored proc not used for more than say 6 months would then be identified as a candidate for clean-up.
So - short or creating - after the fact - a trigger to update the usage date upon each call - which means a lot of work and no result for the next six months, how can one go about this ?
Does anyone have a TSQL utility (that they can share) that recursively searchs sysobjects for a matching input parameter string(for instance column name) for stored procedure object properties that returns the stored procedure name?
The generated script output is in a order of stored procedure first and then table.
REQUIREMENT: My stored procedure is dependent on table. So, I need the table script first and then stored procedure.
Note: I can generate two separate scripts for table and stored procedure, But in a just curiosity to know, Is there any way, can we re order the Generate Scripts output in SQL Server.
i am inserting something into the temp table even without creating it before. But this does not give any compilation error. Only when I want to execute the stored procedure I get the error message that there is an invalid temp table. Should this not result in a compilation error rather during the execution time.?
--create the procedure and insert into the temp table without creating it. --no compilation error. CREATE PROC testTemp AS BEGIN INSERT INTO #tmp(dt) SELECT GETDATE() END
only on calling the proc does this give an execution error
I want to know the differences between SQL Server 2000 storedprocedures and oracle stored procedures? Do they have differentsyntax? The concept should be the same that the stored proceduresexecute in the database server with better performance?Please advise good references for Oracle stored procedures also.thanks!!
I've got a number of stored procedures that I have for reporting
All are of a similar starting format
For easier maintenance and to take away the need to change all of them if the methodology changes I want to split out shared code.
What I want to do is to take out the part that populates the @ID1 table into a separate stored proc which will be called from the report procs. The values from the shared proc will then be parsed back to the reporting proc.
I thought about using a function but I don't think it will be flexible enough as in certain cases I want to parse 2 or more IDs back into the final output.
I also don't want to make the code too complex so that it is relatively easy to read
CREATE PROC dbo.ReportM1 @ID INT AS DECLARE @ID1 TABLE (ID INT PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE(ID)) IF @ID = 0 INSERT INTO @ID1
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The first question I have is: can i do it with a table variable when going between procs or do i need to build a real table if i want it to maintain the logic in 1 place.
May be worth bearing in mind that the end user who will be executing the proc will only have read + execute stored proc access permissions so dropping, updating or creating real tables is not an option. #Temp tables are possible but since am using table variables throughout would prefer to stick with them.
currently stuck with an issue where I need to reclaim the unused table space in SQL server.
ISSUE: Due to database size issue we have moved all the images from database to filesystem and want to reclaim the unused space now....I have tried shrinking the database and rebuild the indexes but didn't see any difference in the table or database size.
Similarly I have identified many Non clustered indexes on big transactional tables(~ 4 million records) that where not used since GO live 1 year back, so I wanted to drop these indexes to cut down the performance and maintenance overhead , so my question is will dropping these indexes reduces the database size?
We are using a third party tool that does not store passwords in an encrypted format therefore we created a user with minimal rights. Isn't there a way to grant "execute any stored procedure" to a user/Login? Do we really have to grant execute on each procedure to the user? And then do the same for each new store procedure? The only other option we have found to be able to "see" and execute the stored procedures is by granting "db_owner". I would think that would negate the user being minimal rights.
I need to be able to identify breaks in a sequence so I can evaluate the data more correctly. In the sample I have given I need to be able to identify the break in sequence at 69397576, ideally I would set that as a D. My query also needs to recognize that the 3 sequences following 69397576 are sequential and would belong to that set. so the out come would look like this.
SELECT * INTO TEMP FROM (SELECT 'AAAAA' AS CATEGORY, 'A1000' AS CODE, '01-01-2014' AS STARTDATE, '01-31-2014' AS ENDDATE UNION SELECT 'AAAAA' AS CATEGORY, 'A1000' AS CODE, '02-01-2014' AS STARTDATE, '02-28-2014' AS ENDDATE UNION SELECT 'AAAAA' AS CATEGORY, 'A1000' AS CODE, '03-01-2014' AS STARTDATE, '03-31-2014' AS ENDDATE UNION SELECT 'AAAAA' AS CATEGORY, 'A2000' AS CODE, '04-01-2014' AS STARTDATE, '04-30-2014' AS ENDDATE UNION SELECT 'AAAAA' AS CATEGORY, 'A1000' AS CODE, '05-01-2014' AS STARTDATE, '05-31-2014' AS ENDDATE) X
I need to extract the date that the value in CODE column changes to another code for each value of CATEGORY and if there is no change, to record the original CODE value and its startdate for each CATEGORY.
INSERT #Visits (OpportunityID, ActivityID, FirstVisit, ScheduledEnd) SELECT 1, 1001, '2014-08-17', '2014-08-17 12:00:00.000' UNION ALL SELECT 1, 1002, '2014-08-17', '2014-08-17 17:04:13.000' UNION ALL SELECT 2, 1003, '2014-08-18', '2014-08-18 20:39:56.000' UNION ALL
Basically I'd like to mark the first Activity for each OpportunityID as a First Visit if its ScheduledEnd falls on the same day as the FirstVisit, and otherwise mark it as a Repeat Visit.
I have this so far, but it doesn't pick up on that the ScheduledEnd needs to be on the same day as the FirstVisit date to count as a first visit:
SELECT*, CASE MIN(ScheduledEnd) OVER (PARTITION BY FirstVisit) WHEN ScheduledEnd THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS isFirstVisit, CASE MIN(ScheduledEnd) OVER (PARTITION BY FirstVisit) WHEN ScheduledEnd THEN 0 ELSE 1 END AS isRepeatVisit FROM#Visits
I am using Excel VBA to run a stored procedure which executes a package using the built-in SQL Server stored procedures. The VBA passes two values from excel to the stored proc., which is then supposed to pass these "parameters" to the package to use as a variable within the package.
@Cycle sql_variant = 2 WITH EXECUTE AS 'USER_ACCOUNT' - account that signs on using windows authentication AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; declare @execution_id bigint
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When I try to execute the package, from SQL Server or Excel using the Macro I built, I get the following error:"The parameter '[User::Cycle]' does not exist or you do not have sufficient permissions." I have given the USER_ACCOUNT that runs executes the stored procedure permission to read/write to the database and the SSIS project folder.
I've got a fairly large hierarchy table and I'm trying to put together a query to find the lowest level descendants of the hierarchy. I think there must be some way to use the "Breadth-first" approach that's stated in the MSDN technet sites about SQL Server HierarchyID but i'm not sure how to write the necessary T-SQL to traverse that. I know I can get all the descendants of a parent node like this
SELECT * FROM AdventureWorks2012.HumanResources.Employee WHERE OrganizationNode.IsDescendantOf(@ParentNode) = 1
However, this query returns all levels for that parent's branch. If I just wanted list of employees that were at the lowest level of the branch(es) for this parent node, how would I do this?
I can easily find user created stat in a databaseSELECT * FROM DB.sys.stats WHERE user_created=1But how do I determine what tables those stats are in? with over 6000 tables I don't feel like looking through all the tables.
There are many duplicate records on my data table because users constantly register under two accounts. I have a query that identify the records that have a duplicate, but it only shows one of the two records, and I need to show the two records so that I can reconcile the differences.The query is taken from a post on stack overflow. It gives me 196, but I need to see the 392 records.
How to identify the duplicates and show the tow records without having to hard code any values, so I can use the query in a report, and anytime there are new duplicates, the report shows them.
I've recently inhereted an environment in which we have over 600 storedprocedures. The documentation is either very poor or non-existant andam needing advice on how to determine if a stored procedure has beenused. Does SQL Server have any sort of ticker that indicates when astored procedure was last used?Thanks and any additional information or experience would be greatlyappreciated.
I am looking for a table where Maintenance Clean Up Task configuration is stored. For example, Delete file older than the following - which is 2 days. Which table can I retrieve the setting in msdb ?
We have some URLs within a bulk block of text some of which are very long. I need to identify rows where such urls exceed say 100 characters in length in amongst other text.So the rule would be return a record if within the string there is a string (without spaces) longer than 100 characters.
I have a stored procedure which executes about forty other stored procedures in several different databases. All of these other procedures truncate tables and insert new data into those tables selected from still other tables.
I want to run this top-level procedure using an account which can't do anything else.
Is there a simple way to give it all the permissions it needs without empowering it to do anything else?
This Might be a really simple thing, however we have just installed SQL server 2005 on a new server, and are having difficulties with the set up of the Store Procedures. Every time we try to modify an existing stored procedure it attempts to save it as an SQL file, unlike in 2000 where it saved it as part of the database itself.
IS there a way inside code for vb.net to programmatically change sorting in a stored procedure???Reason is I need a two way sort and did not want to have to write a SP for each way ....If so Do you have an example.....
Everytime after I restore any database on the sql server 6.5, I have to recompile all the stored procedures in that database.Is there any method to overcome this problem?
