Is it possible, without parsing source, to select a list of all sproc names that insert, update, or delete records? I need to create a TSQL utility script that will do this. Efficiency is not an issue because it will be run only a few times a year (Curse'rs I mean Cursors are ok). Ideally this script would not include updates to temp or local variable tables.
I tried the following query found on SO Question.
SELECT
so.name,
so2.name,
sd.is_updated
from sysobjects so
inner join sys.sql_dependencies sd on so.id = sd.object_id
inner join sysobjects so2 on sd.referenced_major_id = so2.id
where so.xtype = 'p' -- procedure
and
is_updated = 1 -- proc updates table, or at least, I think that's what this means
But it produces false negatives.
Call sp_refreshsqlmodule on all non-schema bound stored procedures:
DECLARE @template AS varchar(max)
SET @template = 'PRINT ''{OBJECT_NAME}''
EXEC sp_refreshsqlmodule ''{OBJECT_NAME}''
'
DECLARE @sql AS varchar(max)
SELECT @sql = ISNULL(@sql, '') + REPLACE(@template, '{OBJECT_NAME}',
QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_SCHEMA) + '.'
+ QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME))
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_SCHEMA) + '.'
+ QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)),
N'IsSchemaBound') IS NULL
OR OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_SCHEMA) + '.'
+ QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)),
N'IsSchemaBound') = 0
EXEC (
@sql
)
That is the problem with sys.sql_dependencies. SQL cannot accurately track dependencies in stored procedures (there are sound reasons why it can't, but lets no go there now). That is without even considering dynamic SQL or CLR procedures.
Visual Studio Database Edition has some better capabilities, but it can track dependencies in scipts, not in a live database. It can though reverse engineer live databases into scripts and analyse the resulted scripts, to some better accuracy than sys.sql_dependencies can. It cannot handle dynamic SQL.
Thanks to Cade Roux's answer i was able to get very close with this:
DECLARE @RoleName nvarchar(255)
SET @RoleName = 'READONLYUSER'
DECLARE @ROUTINE_NAME nvarchar(255)
DECLARE RoutineList Cursor FOR
SELECT ROUTINE_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE (OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)), N'IsSchemaBound') IS NULL OR OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)), N'IsSchemaBound') = 0)
AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sel%'
AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sp_upd%'
AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sp_sel%'
AND NOT ROUTINE_NAME like 'sp_ins%'
OPEN RoutineList
FETCH NEXT FROM RoutineList
INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
EXEC ('EXEC sp_refreshsqlmodule ''' + @ROUTINE_NAME + '''')
FETCH NEXT FROM RoutineList INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
END
CLOSE RoutineList
DEALLOCATE RoutineList
DECLARE GrantList Cursor FOR
SELECT DISTINCT
so.name AS ROUTINE_NAME
FROM sysobjects so
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT
so.name,
so2.name AS [table],
sd.is_updated
FROM sysobjects so
INNER JOIN sys.sql_dependencies sd ON so.id = sd.object_id
INNER JOIN sysobjects so2 ON sd.referenced_major_id = so2.id
WHERE so.xtype = 'p'
and is_updated = 1
) Updates ON so.name = Updates.name
WHERE
so.xtype = 'p' -- procedure
AND Updates.name is null
AND so.name NOT LIKE '%[_]%'
ORDER BY so.name
OPEN GrantList
FETCH NEXT FROM GrantList
INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
print 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].['+@ROUTINE_NAME+'] TO ['+@RoleName +'] '
FETCH NEXT FROM GrantList INTO @ROUTINE_NAME
END
CLOSE GrantList
DEALLOCATE GrantList