Where does SQL Server store the stored procedure code?

Question

I once needed the lines of the stored procedures to be able to trace whether I have a reference to some function, procedure or table, or sometimes to try to find something i

Answer 1

It stored it inside the system schema tables:

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES

See MSDN about the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES view:

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v10/MS.SQLSVR.v10.en/s10de_6tsql/html/c75561b2-c9a1-48a1-9afa-a5896b6454cf.htm

For a content search on this, you can do the follwing:

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_DEFINITION LIKE '%search_string%'