There are times when you want to to list out all the stored procedure names that contains certain keyword or search text.

Here’s a simple query that helps you do that.

Quick way to search within a procedure in SQL Server

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(ID) FROM SysComments 
WHERE Text LIKE '%<Search String>%' 
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id, 'IsProcedure') = 1

Replace the <Search String> with the text that you want to search within all the stored procedures.

Here’s a query that retrieves all the stored procedures that contains the text employee.

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(ID) FROM SysComments 
WHERE Text LIKE '%Employee%' 
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id, 'IsProcedure') = 1