SQL server 2012 SP_HELPTEXT extra lines issue

Question

I am using SQL server 2012, & always use SP_HELPTEXT to get my previously created Stored Procedures, In previous versions of SQL server there were no issues

Answer 1

The answer posted by Rufo still produces blank lines. A little change in the last line of code solved the issue for me. Here is the edited code:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_helptext2] (@ProcName NVARCHAR(256))
AS
BEGIN
  DECLARE @PROC_TABLE TABLE (X1  NVARCHAR(MAX))

  DECLARE @Proc NVARCHAR(MAX)
  DECLARE @Procedure NVARCHAR(MAX)
  DECLARE @ProcLines TABLE (PLID INT IDENTITY(1,1), Line NVARCHAR(MAX))

  SELECT @Procedure = 'SELECT DEFINITION FROM '+db_name()+'.SYS.SQL_MODULES WHERE OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID('''+@ProcName+''')'

  insert into @PROC_TABLE (X1)
        exec  (@Procedure)

  SELECT @Proc=X1 from @PROC_TABLE

  WHILE CHARINDEX(CHAR(13)+CHAR(10),@Proc) > 0
  BEGIN
        INSERT @ProcLines
        SELECT LEFT(@Proc,CHARINDEX(CHAR(13)+CHAR(10),@Proc)-1)
        SELECT @Proc = SUBSTRING(@Proc,CHARINDEX(CHAR(13)+CHAR(10),@Proc)+2,LEN(@Proc))
  END
 --* inserts last line
 insert @ProcLines 
 select @Proc ;

 --edited here. (where Line<>'')
 SELECT Line FROM @ProcLines where Line<>'' ORDER BY PLID
END

Even though this removes the "original carriage returns", but this is way better to live with. I migrated by DB from SQL 2008 to SQL 2012 and all the stored procedures (more than 200) were returned with around 5 carriage returns after every line of code when using sp_helptext.

The above code helped me resolve it.

Answer 2

I wrote another workaround that just replaces the CrLf:

DECLARE @results table ([Text] nvarchar(255))

INSERT @results
Exec sp_helptext spStudyRoleCacheFlushNotificationGet

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE([Text], CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), '')
FROM @results