Search for Text in all DB objects

The other day I needed to alter a bunch of sprocs, views, and UDFs, as they had hard-coded references to other databases. I needed to change these to target a different database for testing some new indexes.

This bit of SQL saved me a bunch of time:

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(id) AS ObjectName, [text] as ObjectDefinition
FROM sys.syscomments
WHERE [text] like '%\[Foo\]%' ESCAPE '\'
FOR XML PATH('Row'), root('Table')

It outputs a single xml doc that contains the definition of every database object that contained your search terms. This allowed me to easily search through them and update accordingly.

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