Comments on: Find Dependent Objects

By: mbourgon

mbourgon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:08:26 +0000

Clever alternative to the way I was doing it, which was using a recursive CTE. Thanks!

By: Derek Dieter

Derek Dieter — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:03:13 +0000

Hi John,

Yes, I believe it is a bug. If you look, I bet that procedure references an object that does not exist. Instead of SQL Server bypassing it, it raises an error.

By: John Galt

John Galt — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:12:17 +0000

Hello Derek,

Thank you for your offering. However, this query throws an un-captured error when no columns are detected. I received this when I applied it to one of my databases. It needs more seasoning.

Msg 2020, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
The dependencies reported for entity “dbo.rpt_Ca____” do not include references to columns. This is either because the entity references an object that does not exist or because of an error in one or more statements in the entity. Before rerunning the query, ensure that there are no errors in the entity and that all objects referenced by the entity exist.

By: Derek Dieter

Derek Dieter — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:11:51 +0000

Hi Rathnam,

After looking into this error, it seems as if SQL 2008 does not allow procedures that have orphaned references to procedures, tables, or columns that do not exist. It seems as if this procedure would be able to overlook this issue, however they do not. In my opinion, it would be a great enhancement to overlook this issue.

Thanks,
Derek

By: Rathnam

Rathnam — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:21:10 +0000

Hi Derek,

I am using below version

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) – 10.50.1600.1 (Intel X86) Apr 2 2010 15:53:02 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)

Thanks & Regards,
Rathnam