Find all Occurrences of Text in all Stored Procedures in all Databases

Sometimes you'd like to find all occurrences of a piece of text in every stored procedure, trigger, etc., possibly to replace it with a new value. The script below will do just that; it returns the database name, the object name, and the object type. Note that it works for both SQL Server 2000 and post-SQL Server 2000 versions.

One thing to note is that the @TextToFind uses the LIKE operator with its ESCAPE argument set to the dollar sign symbol. I added the ESCAPE argument just to make it easier to search for text such containing the underscore character, such as 'My_HardToFind_Thing". Of course, if you're searching for text with a dollar sign symbol in it, you'll want to change the ESCAPE argument to something else.

(The script below can also be run in CMS, which will allow you to also return results across server groups.)

-- Simply set the text you want to look for here. 
declare @TextToFind nvarchar(4000)
set @TextToFind = 'THIS IS MY TEXT TO FIND'

declare @Sql nvarchar(4000)

set @Sql =
    'use [?]

     declare @DatabaseName sysname
     declare @ProcName     sysname
     declare @ProcType     nvarchar(60)

     if left(convert(nvarchar, serverproperty(''productversion'')), 1) <> ''8''
     begin
         declare cur cursor local fast_forward for
            select distinct ''?''          as ''Database Name''
                          , o.name         as ''Object Name''
                          , o.type_desc    as ''Object Type''
              from sys.sql_modules   m
              join sys.objects       o
                on m.object_id = o.object_id
             where m.definition like ''%' + @TextToFind + '%'' escape ''$''

        open cur
        fetch next from cur into @DatabaseName, @ProcName, @ProcType

        while @@fetch_status = 0
        begin
            print @DatabaseName + '' '' + @ProcName + '' '' + @ProcType
            fetch next from cur into @DatabaseName, @ProcName, @ProcType
        end

        close cur
        deallocate cur
    end
    else
    begin
         declare cur cursor local fast_forward for
            select distinct ''?''               as ''Database Name''
                          , object_name(c.id)   as ''Object Name''
                          , o.xtype             as ''Object Type''
              from syscomments   c
              join sysobjects    o
                on c.id = o.id
             where c.[text] like ''%' + @TextToFind + '%'' escape ''$''
               and objectproperty(c.id, ''isprocedure'') = 1

        open cur
        fetch next from cur into @DatabaseName, @ProcName, @ProcType

        while @@fetch_status = 0
        begin
            print @DatabaseName + '' '' + @ProcName + '' '' + @ProcType
            fetch next from cur into @DatabaseName, @ProcName, @ProcType
        end

        close cur
        deallocate cur
    end
    
    '

exec sp_msforeachdb @Sql

Use Central Management Servers to Alter a Column in All Servers

The "Central Management Servers" functionality of SQL Server Management Studio is an excellent way to apply the same code to every server. By "every server", I mean groups of servers that you define: you might have different servers in folders named "Production", "Development", "QA", "SQL Server 2000", etc. It just depends on your needs.

To get to the "Central Management Servers" pane in SSMS, simply select the "View, Registered Servers" menu item. After you've set up your servers, you can execute queries against every database in every server. The example below changes the width of a column in a table. Note that in this example, we look for only databases whose name begins with "DB100", we exclude read-only databases, and we specify the schema, table, and column name we want to modify. The code also checks that the length isn't already set to the value we want, to avoid unnecessary noise in the output. This code is compatible with SQL Server 2000 and later (hence the use of "syscolumns", etc.)

-- Comment. 
set nocount on
declare @Sql nvarchar(4000)

set @Sql = 'use [?]

            if exists (select *
                         from syscolumns   sc
                         join sysobjects   so
                           on sc.id = so.id
                        where ''?''                                   like ''DB100%''
                          and databaseproperty(''?'', ''IsReadOnly'')    = 0
                          and user_name(so.uid)                          = ''dbo''
                          and object_name(sc.id)                         = ''Customer''
                          and sc.name                                    = ''FirstName''
                          and sc.length                                 != 120)
            begin
                select ''?'', sc.length
                  from syscolumns   sc
                  join sysobjects   so
                    on sc.id = so.id
                 where ''?''                                   like ''DB100%''
                   and databaseproperty(''?'', ''IsReadOnly'')    = 0
                   and user_name(so.uid)                          = ''dbo''
                   and object_name(sc.id)                         = ''Customer''
                   and sc.name                                    = ''FirstName''
                   and sc.length                                 != 120

                ALTER TABLE dbo.Customer ALTER COLUMN FirstName VARCHAR(120) NULL
            end '

exec sp_msforeachdb @Sql
go

References

For more information on Central Management Servers:

     Create a Central Management Server and Server Group

     Registered Servers and Central Management Server Stores

     Execute SQL Server query on multiple servers at the same time

List All Database Objects By Type and Owner

This script lists all the objects in the current database.

-- ListOwnersForAllObjects.sql
-- SQL Server 2000 and later.
SELECT
   NAME               AS Object,
   USER_NAME(uid)     AS Owner,
   CASE (xtype)
      WHEN 'AF' THEN 'Aggregate function (CLR)'
      WHEN 'C'  THEN 'CHECK constraint' 
      WHEN 'D'  THEN 'DEFAULT (constraint or stand-alone)'
      WHEN 'F'  THEN 'FOREIGN KEY constraint'
      WHEN 'PK' THEN 'PRIMARY KEY constraint'
      WHEN 'P'  THEN 'SQL stored procedure'
      WHEN 'PC' THEN 'Assembly (CLR) stored procedure'
      WHEN 'FN' THEN 'SQL scalar function'
      WHEN 'FS' THEN 'Assembly (CLR) scalar function'
      WHEN 'FT' THEN 'Assembly (CLR) table-valued function'
      WHEN 'R'  THEN 'Rule (old-style, stand-alone)'
      WHEN 'RF' THEN 'Replication-filter-procedure'
      WHEN 'S'  THEN 'System base table'
      WHEN 'SN' THEN 'Synonym'
      WHEN 'SQ' THEN 'Service queue'
      WHEN 'TA' THEN 'Assembly (CLR) DML trigger'
      WHEN 'TR' THEN 'SQL DML trigger '
      WHEN 'IF' THEN 'SQL inline table-valued function'
      WHEN 'TF' THEN 'SQL table-valued-function'
      WHEN 'U'  THEN 'Table (user-defined)'
      WHEN 'UQ' THEN 'UNIQUE constraint'
      WHEN 'V'  THEN 'View'
      WHEN 'X'  THEN 'Extended stored procedure'
      WHEN 'IT' THEN 'Internal table'
   END            AS 'Object Type'
  FROM sysobjects
 WHERE USER_NAME(uid) NOT IN ('sys', 'INFORMATION_SCHEMA')
 ORDER BY 'Object Type', Owner, Object

Get Row Counts for all Tables

Here's a quick way to get the row counts for every table in a given database:

DBCC UPDATEUSAGE(YourDatabase)

SELECT so.name AS 'Table Name',
       si.rows AS 'Row Count'
  FROM sysobjects so
  JOIN sysindexes si
    ON so.id   = si.id
 WHERE so.type = 'U'
   AND si.indid IN (0, 1)
 ORDER BY si.rows DESC

This is quick because it looks in the system tables instead of at the tables themselves. (If you include the DBCC UPDATEUSAGE statement, it will take a while, but is sure to be accurate.)