SQL Search 1.1

SQL Server developers and DBAs use SQL Search to:

• Find fragments of SQL text within stored procedures, functions, views and more
• Quickly navigate to objects wherever they happen to be on a server
• Find all references to an object

Video: How SQL Search was built Screenshots: Finding objects with SQL Search

SQL Search is an add-in for SQL Server Management Studio that lets you quickly search for SQL across your databases.

SQL Search will eventually become part of SQL Prompt. When this happens, the free version of SQL Search will continue to work without issue.

Until then, we're making it available as a free standalone tool.

Why use SQL Search?

• Impact Analysis
  You want to rename one of your table columns but aren't sure what stored procedures reference it. Using SQL Search, you can search for the column name and find all the stored procedures where it is used.
• Work faster
  Finding anything in the SSMS object tree requires a lot of clicking. Using SQL Search, you can press the shortcut combo, start typing the name, and jump right there.
• Make your life easier
  You need to find stored procedures you've not yet finished writing. Using SQL Search, you can search for stored procedures containing the text 'TODO'.
• Increase efficiency, reduce errors
  You are a DBA, and developers keep using 'SELECT *' in their views and stored procedures. You want to find all these and replace them with a correct list of columns to improve performance and prevent future bugs. Using SQL Search, you can look for 'SELECT *' in the text of stored procedures and views.

What people say...

I use SQL Search regularly and think it's great.

Gregor Suttie, Senior Software Engineer, Pulsion Technology

For large databases it's never been easy to find schema items and SQL Search is fast and unobtrusive, it's there when I need it and provides the results I need quickly.

David Sussman, ASP.NET consultant

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