Dependencies and the Enterprise Manager problem

  • As DBA I've found that trying to get the programmers to keep effective documentation here is verging on the impossible, so I took control of it, and it's working quite well (if the programmers would take the time to actually READ the stuff I publish on their intranet that is).

    My problem is concering the dependencies option in the enterprise manager and the sp_depends stored procedure.

    I've noticed that when a stored procedure is created, is registers what tables, etc., it depends upon, but removes the entries indicating what is dependant upon this one!?!?!

    Am I going mad? Is there an easy way to maintain this, or is this as useful as an icecube in hell.


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  • Semi useful. If the objects are created in the right order and maintained, it works. Otherwise, it doesn't work.

    Steve Jones

    sjones@sqlservercentral.com

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones

  • Yes, another problem is SP with any type of dynamic SQL will not have the dependencies available. However, I do see to recall someone here wrote a script to parse everything in a text sense and make a fairly good representation of the real dependencies (Or maybe I dreamed I was going to do this, sorry I do that sometimes), do check.

  • Thanks, I'll check the scripts and see what materialises. In the meantime, I'll just drive the team here crackers with the constant typing until they buy me a quieter keyboard.


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    It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
    the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning.
    It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

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