You can use the following query to search through all of the code in a SQL Server database for a given string. This is often useful when identifying dependencies in code.
–Make sure to set the database context here (i.e. “use master”)
GO
–Specify the search string (surrounded by wildcards “%”)
DECLARE @SearchString NVARCHAR(100); SET @SearchString = ‘%Column01%’
–Search through the database code for your results
SELECT DISTINCT
sys.schemas.name + ‘.’ + sys.objects.name AS ObjectName
FROM
sys.sql_modules
INNER JOIN
sys.objects
ON
sys.sql_modules.object_id = sys.objects.object_id
INNER JOIN
sys.schemas
ON
sys.objects.schema_id = sys.schemas.schema_id
WHERE
sys.sql_modules.definition LIKE @SearchString
ORDER BY
ObjectName
GO
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