Microsoft KB Archive/154756

= How To List Stored Procedures in a SQL Server Database =

Article ID: 154756

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q154756



SUMMARY
Some programmers require the ability to list all of the stored procedures from a SQL Server database. The following example demonstrates how to use SQL syntax to instruct SQL Server to return information regarding the stored procedures and their parameters.



MORE INFORMATION
The following example uses RDO to create a list of the stored procedures held in the SQL Server pubs database:

 Start a new Project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default. Add a Command button (Command1) and a List Box (List1) to Form1.  Add the following code to Form1.

Note You must change UID = and PWD = to the correct values before you run this code. Make sure that UID has the appropriate permissions to perform this operation on the database. Private Sub Command1_Click Dim cn As rdoConnection Dim ps As rdoPreparedStatement Dim rs As rdoResultset Dim strConnect As String Dim strSQL As String 'open a connection to the pubs database using DSNless connections 'change the Server argument to match your SQL Server strConnect = "Driver={SQL Server}; Server=myserver; " & _ "Database=pubs; Uid= ; Pwd= " Set cn = rdoEnvironments(0).OpenConnection(dsName:="", _                Prompt:=rdDriverNoPrompt, _                 ReadOnly:=False, _                 Connect:=strConnect)

strSQL = "Select so.name,sc.name,st.name,sc.length " & _ "FROM syscolumns sc,master..systypes st,sysobjects so " & _ "WHERE sc.id in (select id from sysobjects where type ='P')" & _ " AND so.type ='P' " & _ "AND sc.id = so.id " & _ "AND sc.type = st.type " & _ "AND sc.type <> 39" 'create a prep stmt for the stored proc call Set ps = cn.CreatePreparedStatement("MyPs", strSQL)

Set rs = ps.OpenResultset(rdOpenStatic)

'add the first resultset to a list box list1.AddItem "SP Name,Param Name,Data Type,Length" While Not rs.EOF list1.AddItem rs(0) & ", " & rs(1) & " , " & rs(2) & " , " & _ rs(3) rs.MoveNext Wend 'Close the resultset and the connection and set both to nothing rs.Close Set rs = Nothing cn.Close Set cn = Nothing End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load Command1.Caption = "List all Stored Procedures" End Sub

 Press the F5 key to run the program. Click the button labeled "List all Stored Procedures." A List of all stored procedures and their parameters should now appear.

