Category Archives for "Object Information"

Finding Table Defaults, Primary and Unique Keys and Foreign Keys with sp_helpconstraint

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

A little while back I wrote a post going over sp_help in a beginning effort to find table dependency information.  https://www.sqlrx.com/using-sp_help-to-find-object-dependencies/.  That expanded to reviewing sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities & sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities  (https://www.sqlrx.com/finding_things_sql_that_reference_a_table/ & https://www.sqlrx.com/how-to-find-the-objects-and-columns-a-stored-procedure-or-view-uses/ ) and sys.sql_expression_dependencies (https://www.sqlrx.com/using-sys-sql_expression_dependencies-as-a-single-source-to-find-referenced-and-referencing-objects/  ) Now I want to loop back just a bit and expand on more information that is found in sp_help […]

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Using sys.sql_expression_dependencies as a Single Source to Find Referenced and Referencing Objects

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

I thought I would continue to expand on ways to view dependencies.  This post will give you an alternate way to find things referencing tables and finding things that are referenced by a stored procedure or view after my previous posts on the subject.  See these (https://www.sqlrx.com/finding_things_sql_that_reference_a_table/ & https://www.sqlrx.com/how-to-find-the-objects-and-columns-a-stored-procedure-or-view-uses/ ) A different way to find […]

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How To Find the Objects and Columns a Stored Procedure or View Uses

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

In my last post I covered finding objects that reference another object using the dmf, sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities.  (https://www.sqlrx.com/finding_things_sql_that_reference_a_table/ )  Now let’s reverse that and find what objects are referenced in stored procedures or views.  When updates are needed to business logic often that happens in these objects.  If the stored procedures or views are large with […]

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Finding Things in SQL That Reference a Table

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

Have you ever been asked to make changes to a table that is used by other things/processes? One of the challenges is to figure out what will be impacted by the change. This way you can know what to check and test so that the change is rolled out with success. One good place to […]

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Using sp_help To Find Object Dependencies

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Miscellaneous , Object Information , SQL Development , SQL Server

I have been working on some things lately that have required that I find objects with specific data types and collations and then find those objects dependent objects and anything else that uses those objects. My end goal was to ultimately create drop and create statements for the things I found since we were changing […]

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