How can I quickly identify most recently modified stored procedures in SQL Server

Question

I Need to manually migrate modified stored procedures from a DEV SQL Server 2005 database instance to a TEST instance. Except for the changes I\'m migrating, the databases have

Answer 1

There are several database compare tools out there. One that I've always like is SQLCompare by Red Gate.

You can also try using:

SELECT name
FROM sys.objects
WHERE modify_date > @cutoffdate

In SQL 2000 that wouldn't have always worked, because using ALTER didn't update the date correctly, but in 2005 I believe that problem is fixed.

I use a SQL compare tool myself though, so I can't vouch for that method 100%