Reverse Engineer SQL Scrpts

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Reverse Engineer SQL Scrpts

stevet 20325

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September 15, 2011 at 9:00 am

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I have a bunch of fairly complex SQL Scripts, mostly stored procs. I need to model out the tables and columns these things read. Is there a tool or an easier way that prowling through all that SQL to extract the Table/Column DDL?

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FibRock Right there with Babe Points: 726 More actions · Answer 1

Depending on what kind of information you need sp_depends presents a good amount of information on what is being used in a procedure and to some degree how it is being used. This is being phased out so you may want to look into sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities or sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities DMVs

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 2

note that those two new DM views are in SQL 2008R2 and above:

sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities

sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities

i went to test in 2008 and saw they were not there...

you might have to stick witht hese two views in 2005/08:

select * from sys.sysdepends

select * from sys.sql_expression_dependencies

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 3

Are you looking to duplicate the affected tables? If you wrapped it in a stored proc, I believe the Red Gate Dependency Tracker would tell you which tables, and then you could script them.

Disclosure: I work for Red Gate.

stevet 20325 SSC Veteran Points: 275 More actions · Answer 4

I am trying to identify and duplicate the tables. there are many tables in each proc, and I just need to find them all and the columns that are being used. I'm working from offline scripts that create the stored procs right now, but may get access to the procs themselves hopefully tomorrow.

Steve Malley Ten Centuries Points: 1204 More actions · Answer 5

Codeplex has an ExportSQLScript.exe that I took a look at last week. It did not run 'as is' on my Windows 2008 R2 / SQL 2008 R2 configuration.

http://exportsqlscript.codeplex.com/