Finding all references to a column

I have a task to where I need to move a column from one table to
another. I want to be sure I update any view, stored procedure,
trigger, etc. that references the column. I simply want a query that
will report the related objects and then I will update them manually
but before I go and try and figure out how to do this by querying the
sys tables is there an sp_sproc that will do this?[posted and mailed, please reply in news]

rnewman (newmanr19@.yahoo.com) writes:
> I have a task to where I need to move a column from one table to
> another. I want to be sure I update any view, stored procedure,
> trigger, etc. that references the column. I simply want a query that
> will report the related objects and then I will update them manually
> but before I go and try and figure out how to do this by querying the
> sys tables is there an sp_sproc that will do this?

The best way is to build the database from scripts, with the column
reomved, and then look through all errors you get.

You can also run this query:

select object_name(id)
from sysdepends
where depid = object_id('tbl')
and col_name(depid, depnumber) = 'col'
order by 1

However, this may not be reliable. If you can be confident that all
procedures abd views have been created/altered after the table was
created, this will work. But if you have dropped the table and replaced
with a new version, or you loaded stored procedures before you created
the table, the dependency information will be incomplete.

Note: while the sysdepends tables is documented in Books Online,
the usage of the depnumber as column id is undocumented, and may
be subject to change without notice.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, sommar@.algonet.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp