get the text of a stored procedure into a variable in SQL Server

Question

I want to loop through several stored procs and extract one string form each of them to use in another procedure (basically the 4-part remote server string)

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Answer 1

You can use the system stored procedure sp_helptext to get the stored procedure definition into a table and then just query against that temp table / table variable something like this..

DECLARE @TABLE TABLE
(Line_Number INT IDENTITY(1,1), Text_Column NVARCHAR(MAX));

INSERT INTO @TABLE(Text_Column)
EXECUTE sp_helptext Your_Proc_Name

SELECT * 
FROM @TABLE
WHERE Text_Column LIKE '%BOCTEST%'

UPDATE

SELECT p.name
      ,m.[definition]
FROM  sys.procedures p 
INNER JOIN sys.sql_modules m
ON    P.[object_id] = m.[object_id]
WHERE m.[definition] LIKE '%BOCTEST%'