Find all references to an object in an SQL Server database

Question

I\'m trying to find all references to an object in an SQL Server database.

How can I quickly search? SQL Server Management Studio does not seem to do it. I use http:

Answer 1

Very late to the party, but...

You can use the system proc sys.sp_depends:

exec sys.sp_depends 'object_name'

The result is a table listing all of the database objects that depend on (i.e., reference) object_name. Each row contains the name and type of the referring object, along with other info columns, depending on the type of object_name.

Note: This proc was added in MS SQL Server 2008.

See: MSDN docs

The docs say that this proc may be removed in a future release, and to use sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities instead, but it's still alive and kicking in MS SQL 2017.