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sp_stored_procedures (Transact-SQL)

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Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance

Returns a list of stored procedures in the current environment.

Transact-SQL syntax conventions

Syntax

syntaxsql 
sp_stored_procedures
    [ [ @sp_name = ] N'sp_name' ]
    [ , [ @sp_owner = ] N'sp_owner' ]
    [ , [ @sp_qualifier = ] N'sp_qualifier' ]
    [ , [ @fUsePattern = ] fUsePattern ]
[ ; ]

Arguments

[ @sp_name = ] N'sp_name'

The name of the procedure used to return catalog information. @sp_name is nvarchar(390), with a default of NULL. Wildcard pattern matching is supported.

[ @sp_owner = ] N'sp_owner'

The name of the schema to which the procedure belongs. @sp_owner is nvarchar(384), with a default of NULL. Wildcard pattern matching is supported. If @sp_owner isn't specified, the default procedure visibility rules of the underlying database management system (DBMS) apply.

In SQL Server, if the current schema contains a procedure with the specified name, that procedure is returned. If a nonqualified stored procedure is specified, the Database Engine searches for the procedure in the following order:

  • The sys schema of the current database.

  • The caller's default schema if executed in a batch or in dynamic SQL; or, if the non-qualified procedure name appears inside the body of another procedure definition, the schema containing this other procedure is searched next.

  • The dbo schema in the current database.

[ @sp_qualifier = ] N'sp_qualifier'

The name of the procedure qualifier. @sp_qualifier is sysname, with a default of NULL. Various DBMS products support three-part naming for tables in the form <qualifier>.<schema>.<name>. In SQL Server, @sp_qualifier represents the database name. In some products, it represents the server name of the database environment of the table.

[ @fUsePattern = ] fUsePattern

Determines whether the underscore (_), percent (%), or brackets ([ and ]) are interpreted as wildcard characters. @fUsePattern is bit, with a default of 1.

  • 0 = Pattern matching is off.
  • 1 = Pattern matching is on.

Return code values

None.

Result set

Column name Data type Description
PROCEDURE_QUALIFIER sysname Procedure qualifier name. This column can be NULL.
PROCEDURE_OWNER sysname Procedure owner name. This column always returns a value.
PROCEDURE_NAME nvarchar(134) Procedure name. This column always returns a value.
NUM_INPUT_PARAMS int Reserved for future use.
NUM_OUTPUT_PARAMS int Reserved for future use.
NUM_RESULT_SETS int Reserved for future use.
REMARKS varchar(254) Description of the procedure. SQL Server doesn't return a value for this column.
PROCEDURE_TYPE smallint Procedure type. SQL Server always returns 2.0. This value can be one of the following options:

0 = SQL_PT_UNKNOWN
1 = SQL_PT_PROCEDURE
2 = SQL_PT_FUNCTION

Remarks

For maximum interoperability, the gateway client should assume only SQL standard pattern matching, namely the percent (%) and underscore (_) wildcard characters.

The permission information about execute access to a specific stored procedure for the current user isn't necessarily checked; therefore, access isn't guaranteed. Only three-part naming is used. This means that only local stored procedures, not remote stored procedures (which require four-part naming), are returned when they're executed against SQL Server. If the server attribute ACCESSIBLE_SPROC is Y in the result set for sp_server_info, only stored procedures that can be executed by the current user are returned.

sp_stored_procedures is equivalent to SQLProcedures in ODBC. The results returned are ordered by PROCEDURE_QUALIFIER, PROCEDURE_OWNER, and PROCEDURE_NAME.

Permissions

Requires SELECT permission on the schema.

Examples

A. Return all stored procedures in the current database

The following example returns all stored procedures in the AdventureWorks2022 database.

SQL 
USE AdventureWorks2022;
GO
EXEC sp_stored_procedures;

B. Return a single stored procedure

The following example returns a result set for the uspLogError stored procedure.

SQL 
USE AdventureWorks2022;
GO

sp_stored_procedures N'uspLogError',
    N'dbo',
    N'AdventureWorks2022',
    1;

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