How to drop all stored procedures at once in SQL Server database?

Question

Currently we use separate a drop statements for each stored procedure in the script file:

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N\'[         


        

Answer 1

ANSI compliant, without cursor

DECLARE @SQL national character varying(MAX) 
SET @SQL= ''

SELECT @SQL= @SQL+ N'DROP PROCEDURE "' + REPLACE(SPECIFIC_SCHEMA, N'"', N'""') + N'"."' + REPLACE(SPECIFIC_NAME, N'"', N'""') + N'"; '
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES 

WHERE (1=1) 
AND ROUTINE_TYPE = 'PROCEDURE' 
AND ROUTINE_NAME NOT IN 
(
     'dt_adduserobject'
    ,'dt_droppropertiesbyid'
    ,'dt_dropuserobjectbyid'
    ,'dt_generateansiname'
    ,'dt_getobjwithprop'
    ,'dt_getobjwithprop_u'
    ,'dt_getpropertiesbyid'
    ,'dt_getpropertiesbyid_u'
    ,'dt_setpropertybyid'
    ,'dt_setpropertybyid_u'
    ,'dt_verstamp006'
    ,'dt_verstamp007'

    ,'sp_helpdiagrams'
    ,'sp_creatediagram'
    ,'sp_alterdiagram'
    ,'sp_renamediagram'
    ,'sp_dropdiagram'

    ,'sp_helpdiagramdefinition'
    ,'fn_diagramobjects'
    ,'sp_upgraddiagrams'
) 


ORDER BY SPECIFIC_NAME 


-- PRINT @SQL
EXEC(@SQL) 

Without cursor, non-ansi compliant:

DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(MAX) = N''
, @lineFeed NVARCHAR(2) = CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) ;

SELECT @sql = @sql + N'DROP PROCEDURE ' + QUOTENAME(SPECIFIC_SCHEMA) + N'.' + QUOTENAME(SPECIFIC_NAME) + N';' + @lineFeed
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES 
WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE = 'PROCEDURE' 
-- AND SPECIFIC_NAME LIKE 'sp[_]RPT[_]%'


AND ROUTINE_NAME NOT IN 
( 
    SELECT name FROM sys.procedures WHERE is_ms_shipped <> 0 
) 


ORDER BY SPECIFIC_NAME 


-- PRINT @sql 
EXECUTE(@sql)