Search For A Table/string Within Job Steps, Dts, Database, Stored Procedures Etc
May 16, 2007
Hi All :
A couple of tables have been identified to be deleted. My job is to
find if it is at all used.
On searching the web, i found a proc to search for a string within all
databases in a server.
using system sproc : sp_msforeachdb
it searches for a string in
views, sprocs, functions, check constraints, defaults, foreign key,
scalar function, inlined tablefunction, primary key, 'Replication
filter stored procedure, System table, Table function, Trigger, 'User
table, 'UNIQUE constraint''Extended stored procedure'
So it is pretty extensive. But i dont think it is covering the code
within execsqltasks in DTS, and tsql code within JOB STEPS. Those are
the two more places where code exists in my server.
If any of you have done so in the past, do let me know if there is a
system stored proc or code that you have written, to do the same
Ever needed to find a stored procedure with a specific string in it? You can pretty this up as a stored procedure and pass it a parm or cut and paste it into query analyzer.
select name from sysobjects where id = (select id from syscomments where text like '%like%')
Edit:
The above works only for a single hit. For multiple hits, this works
select name from sysobjects as A join syscomments as B on (text like '%cursor%') where A.id = B.id
How do I search for and print all stored procedure names in a particular database? I can use the following query to search and print out all table names in a database. I just need to figure out how to modify the code below to search for stored procedure names. Can anyone help me out? SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
How do I use table names stored in variables in stored procedures?
Code Snippetif (select count(*) from @tablename) = 0 or (select count(*) from @tablename) = 1000000
I receive the error 'must declare table variable '@tablename''
I've looked into table variables and they are not what I would require to accomplish what is needed. After browsing through the forums I believe I need to use dynamic sql particuarly involving sp_executesql. However, I am pretty new at sql and do not really understand how to use this and receive an output parameter from it(msdn kind of confuses me too). I am tryin got receive an integer count of the records from a certain table which can change to anything depending on what the user requires.
Code Snippet
if exists(Select * from sysobjects where name = @temptablename) drop table @temptablename
It does not like the 'drop table @temptablename' part here. This probably wouldn't be an issue if I could get temporary tables to work, however when I use temporary tables i get invalid object '#temptable'.
Heres what the stored procedure does. I duplicate a table that is going to be modified by using 'select into temptable' I add the records required using 'Insert into temptable(Columns) Select(Columns)f rom TableA' then I truncate the original table that is being modified and insert the temporary table into the original.
Heres the actual SQL query that produces the temporary table error.
Code Snippet Select * into #temptableabcd from TableA
Insert into #temptableabcd(ColumnA, ColumnB,Field_01, Field_02) SELECT ColumnA, ColumnB, Sum(ABC_01) as 'Field_01', Sum(ABC_02) as 'Field_02', FROM TableB where ColumnB = 003860 Group By ColumnA, ColumnB
TRUNCATE TABLE TableA
Insert into TableA(ColumnA, ColumnB,Field_01, Field_02) Select ColumnA, ColumnB, Sum(Field_01) as 'Field_01', Sum('Field_02) as 'Field_02', From #temptableabcd Group by ColumnA, ColumnB
The above coding produces
Msg 208, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
Invalid object name '#temptableabcd'.
Why does this seem to work when I use an actual table? With an actual table the SQL runs smoothly, however that creates the table names as a variable problem from above. Is there certain limitation with temporary tables in stored procedures? How would I get the temporary table to work in this case if possible?
Is there any way to search in stored procedures? If in one of the stored procedure there is an a query like "delete from myTable...." and i want to get all those procedures that contained this query text.......
Hi,Is there any way to find all stored procedures that contain a givenfieldExample: I want to find all stored procedures that work with the fieldShipDate in tblOrder tableThanks, Eugene
Hi All,I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if it's possible to search forstored procedures by their contents?I tend to leave very descriptive notes in stored procedures andthey're beginning to build up in number, so I'm wondering if it'spossible to search in Query Analyzer for stored procedures thatcontain certain words / phrases etc.Alternatively, is there a way to do a system-level select that lookssomething like the following pseudo-gibberish (actually, it's actualgibberish, I guess, rather than pseudo-gibberish):SELECT * FROM [all stored procedures] where [contents] like '%mysearch phrase%'Any help much appreciated!Much warmth,Murray
I guess I'm the only one with this problem -- couldn't find anything on it in the back questions. Maybe it's a weird problem. :)
Anyway, although I'm not new to SQL, I am a bit new to stored procedures, and MS SQL Server 7. (I've been using mySQL, decent, but doesn't have many features ... )
I used some ASP and stored procedure code from 4guysfromrolla.com for session tracking through SQL Server.
I've modified most of the stored procedures so that they actually work. :)
To answer some questions before they're asked: It's a resume database, and does need to be able to store 8000 characters at a shot. (I'm hoping 8000 is as large as it gets for this particular field.)
There's only one problem now: One of the stored procedures enters information into the sessionvalue field of the table. However, much of our data contains apostrophes ('), and we need to be able to store them. I thought that modifying the execute statement would do it, something like:
Hello I have a Database which contains like 1000 Tables. I am not the designer of that DB.So I need to in which table and which column that string exists. IS there a DBWIDE String search possible? Thanks and Regards
Now my requirement is to search for FIleTYPE in above table by passing @Filename as parameter and that should return Val as response. How to write a search query for this type.
I've created a search page in my asp.net app that allows the user to enter optional parameters to narrow down the result set. It looks something like:Find all parts where: manuafacturer: <dropdownlist>ANY | manufacturer 1 |... </dropdownlist> model: <dropdownlist>ANY | model 1 |... </dropdownlist> cost: between <textbox> and <textbox> dollarsCurrently I create the SQL command on the fly building the WHERE based on what the user selects. For example if in the form above they select manufacturer = manufacturer1 model = ANY cost = between 10 and 15the WHERE string is ... WHERE manufacturer='manufacturer1' AND cost BETWEEN 10 AND 15Since the user doesn't care about model I leave it out of the WHERE. OK so here is my question. I want to move my queries to strored procedures however I'm not sure how to create the query since it changes based on what the user enters. Using the example above I'm assuming I can create one query with 4 parameters however what value would I use for ANY? parameter1 (manufacturer) = "manufacturer1" parameter2 (model) = ??? parameter3 (price low) = 10 parameter4 (proce high) = 15I see there is an ANY operator in T-SQL but it doesn't look like the right thing to use. Should I use LIKE '%'? Seems that using LIKE would result in addition overhead.ThanksSimon
i had writen a stored procedure for inserting vlaues frma form into sql but iam getting this error can any pls help me Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Int32 my stored procedureALTER PROCEDURE sp_addcustomer
(@customerid as int, @fname as char(10),@lname as char(10) , @companyname as char(10),@email as nvarchar(50), @address as char(10),@city as char(10), @zip as char(10),@country as char(10), @phone as nvarchar(50),@state as char(10) )
Is their a way to search every table in a database for a particular character string that might appear in any column in any of the tables?
For example suppose in a hypothetical situation that the character string "http://www.DrSeusOnTheLoose.com" appears randomly in a database, but we do not know which tables it occurs in and in what columns. How can we do a search to find such a character string?
As you know, this is easily accomplished in MS Windows XX or through a dos command line script. But when it comes to searching a whole database, I don't know how to do this. Can someone please help me? Ralph
I have a string which I need to know where it came from in a database.I don't want to spend time coding this so is there a ready made scriptwhich takes a string as a parameter and searches all the tables whichcontain varchar type columns and searches these columns and indicate whichtables contain that string?Full text search is not enabled.--Tonyhttp://dotNet-Hosting.com - Super low $4.75/month.Single all inclusive features plan with MS SQL Server, MySQL 5, ASP.NET,PHP 5 & webmail support.
Assume I have an asp.net/sql server 2000 web app in a shared hosting environment. I then encrypt the connection string using ProtectSection("DataProtectionConfigurationProvider") in the page load of my default.aspx page.
Am I understanding the following concepts then correctly?
1. I upload the site to the shared hosting server. 2. The first time I run the app eg. www.whatever.com/default.aspx, the ProtectSection method above is executed. 3. Now the conn string area of my web.config is encrypted, and asp.net will decrypt as needed.
4. If someone were to hack the server and view the web.config -- whether via getting into the server or via ftp, they would see an encrypted connection string. Thanks very much!
I have MSSQL 2005. On earlier versions of MSSQL saving a stored procedure wasn't a confusing action. However, every time I try to save my completed stored procedure (parsed successfully ) I'm prompted to save it as a query on the hard drive.
How do I cause the 'Save' action to add the new stored procedure to my database's list of stored procedures?
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
We have modified a column name for a table. Now we need to find out all the database objects (stored procedures, functions, views) which access this table so that we can modify them. This is a very big database and its not easy to open the code for each object and check if its access that table. To add to the complexity, its not just one table and column but a number of tables have been modified.
I try to learn "How to Access Stored Procedures with ADO.NET 2.0 - VB 2005 Express: (1) Handling the Input and Output Parameters and (2) Reporting their Values in VB Forms". I found a good article "Calling Stored Procedures from ADO.NET" by John Paul Cook in http://www.dbzine.com/sql/sql-artices/cook6. I downloaded the source code into my VB 2005 Express:
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data.SqlTypes
Public Class Form_Cook
Inherits System.Windows.Form.Form
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
End Sub
'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub
'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer
'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
Friend WithEvents GroupBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
Friend WithEvents labelPAF As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Friend WithEvents labelNbrPrices As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Friend WithEvents UpdatePrices As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents textBoxPAF As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Friend WithEvents TenMostExpensive As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents grdNorthwind As System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid
Friend WithEvents groupBox2 As System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Me.GroupBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox()
Me.labelPAF = New System.Windows.Forms.Label()
Me.labelNbrPrices = New System.Windows.Forms.Label()
Me.textBoxPAF = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox()
Me.UpdatePrices = New System.Windows.Forms.Button()
Me.groupBox2 = New System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox()
Me.TenMostExpensive = New System.Windows.Forms.Button()
Me.grdNorthwind = New System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid()
) ================================================= In my VB 2005 Express, I created a project "KimmelCallNWspWithAdoNet" that had the following code: --Form_Kimmel.vb-- Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data.SqlTypes
Public Class Form_Kimmel
Public Sub InsertCustomer()
Dim connectionString As String = "Integrated Security-SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;" + _
End Class ==============================================
I executed the Form_Kimmel.vb and I got no errors. But I did not get the new values insterted in the table "Custermers" of Northwind database. Please help and tell me what I did wrong and how to correct this problem.
Hi I have an application that I have started to develop. I have successfully set the connection to open the SQL Server database that I created. When I first started on the program, I was able to create Table Adapters by dragging the tables or stored procedures onto the DataSet work surface and going through the configuration process. At one point, however, I stopped being able to see any of my stored procedures in the database view although they are there because when I go to create a new table adapter, I am able to right click and add the new adapter and find the stored procedure in the wizard.Is there any way I can reset this so that my stored procedures are visible again. I have tried refreshing to no avail - and I think this is creating problems in other parts of the application.Any help appreciate.Roger
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I've never dealt with stored procedures much.. but i have a new database created.. imported the tables, but the stored procedures didnt get copied over..
Is there an easy way to export them.. perhaps to a .sql file ... then import them or run a script on the other database..
I have never done much with the query window before, so i'm not sure how to handle this.. as there are around 20 stored procedures that need imported..
I have a scenario where in I need to use a comma delimited string as input. And search the tables with each and every string in the comma delimited string.
Hi, I have a MSDE datatable which containes Documents and a link to thet document. Is there any way i can search the doument name colunm using a search box from my web site and display the results. I have seen all these "stored procedure" discussions and just wonder whether it would be easy to search using the stored procedure? I haven't got much experience using MSDE and it seems really a big task for me. Any help/suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks, RAJESH
basically, what I am trying to achieve to 2 types of search functions...
Search for All terms (easy and complete) and search for Any Terms...
the way I have gone about this so far is to in my asp.net app, split the search string by spaces, and then search for each word, and merging the resulting dataset into the main return dataset.
this, however has a few problems. the result dataset will contain duplicate values, and i am running queries in a loop.
What i am looking for is a one-stop-shop stored procedue that will split the search string, loop through each word, and add the results to a return table, ONLY if it does not exist already within the return table.
Can anyone point me in the right direction... basically with the splitting of the string and the looping through the words...the rest i think i can handle...
or any other hints/tips/tricks would also be helpful.
i have a procedure like below but it dosen't return any tableSELECT Hardwares.HWID, Hardwares.Title FROM Hardwares INNER JOIN Category ON Hardwares.CategoryID = Category.CategoryID WHERE (Category.Type LIKE '%Hardware%') AND (Category.Title = @Title)
How can I pass a name of a table to a stored procedure. I want to pass the name as a parameter. The table already exists in the db. After that, I will do "SELECT ..... FROM @tableparameter" What is the right way to do that?
