Unused Procedure lists - Most easiest way

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Unused Procedure lists - Most easiest way

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December 9, 2014 at 9:15 am

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John Hanrahan Hall of Fame Points: 3825 More actions · Answer 1

Never needed this but did not 'really' know this existed. Thanks for the reminder.

ScottPletcher SSC Guru Points: 101098 More actions · Answer 2

Keep in mind that procs are listed only as long as they are in the cache. On a memory-constrained or busy server, stats could be lost/removed. Also, whenever SQL Server is stopped and restarted obviously the cache gets emptied and has to start over.

That is, be careful when using this view and understand its limitations.

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R. M. Joseph Old Hand Points: 368 More actions · Answer 3

Good utility - required for clean-up activity of database. Thanks to Author

Pei Zhu-415513 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4040 More actions · Answer 4

technically you can not reply on it since

1. sproc's with recompile clause would not stay in cache.

2.if there is memory pressure or something(server restart, manual reset) dm_exec_procedure_stats might be cleared.

it is good to use for estimating though.

mariol 76344 Newbie Points: 7 More actions · Answer 5

Use with caution. We have plenty of procedures that are in use and they do not show up in the dm_view...

We store stored procedure usage over time and anything not in that list we would only remove if they do not reference temp tables.

akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 6

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May 23, 2016 at 6:52 am

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Thanks for the script.

akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 7

mariol 76344 (5/23/2016)
Use with caution. We have plenty of procedures that are in use and they do not show up in the dm_view...

Thanks for the warning.

Lee Linares SSCrazy Points: 2727 More actions · Answer 8

You can also get erroneous output if the object_id of an object exists in more than 1 database. In my testing a stored procedure was reported as having last executed 20 days ago but I had only created it last week. It turned out that a stored procedure in another database had the same object_id.

Lee

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Lee Linares (5/23/2016)
You can also get erroneous output if the object_id of an object exists in more than 1 database. In my testing a stored procedure was reported as having last executed 20 days ago but I had only created it last week. It turned out that a stored procedure in another database had the same object_id.Lee

That's going to be a problem for us.

jonesg 74626 SSC-Addicted Points: 405 More actions · Answer 10

To Lee's point, use the following CTE that filters on the current database_id so that you aren't counting hits from object_ids from other databases:

select ISNULL(deps.database_id,-1) database_id,p.object_id,p.name

,ISNULL(deps.type,'P') type,ISNULL(deps.type_desc,'SQL_STORED_PROCEDURE') type_desc

,ISNULL(deps.last_execution_time,'1900-01-01') last_execution_time,ISNULL(deps.execution_count,-1) execution_count

,p.create_date,p.modify_date

from sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats deps

right outer join sys.procedures p on deps.object_id = p.object_id

where database_id= db_id()

Lee Linares SSCrazy Points: 2727 More actions · Answer 11

I like your solution, however, that method would NOT show the stored procedures that do NOT have a cached stored procedure plan. The Right JOIN Vignesh used was to include those procedures that had not been executed. Personally, I liked your modification since it is cleaner. Thanks.

Lee

bhatnagar_shilpi Newbie Points: 3 More actions · Answer 12

But will this work if we are running rebuild and reorganize indexes every week and also i have noticed that few stored procedures cache gets cleared every day , may be because of lot of insert/update/deletes or some other reason.

Thanks

Shilpi