Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.
I saw a question recently about getting the code in a stored procedure. I’ve become dependent on SQL Prompt, which gives me a nice preview of code when I see a proc:
The main way I’ve gotten code is right clicking a proc in Object Explorer and clicking Modify. That opens up an ALTER statement for the proc.
However, there’s one more way to do this: sp_helptext.
Not the best solution, but it gives me a quick look from SQL without futzing through a big list in the OE.
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This is a quick example of some knowledge that I can use in my regular work. When someone asked the question, I knew the code for procs was stored somewhere, but I wasn’t sure what the proc to get this was. I tried sp_help, but that wasn’t right, so I had to go look up sp_helptext.
This took about ten minutes to write.