-- how to view all procedures (type = 'p')
SELECT * FROM sys.objects
WHERE type = 'P'
-- How to view list of all stored procedures within a database
SELECT * from DatabaseName.information_schema.routines
WHERE routine_type = 'PROCEDURE'
-- How to view code used to create stored procedure. Syntax is sp_helptext ProcedureName
sp_helptext lsp_my_stored_procedure
-- Alternate way to view code used to create stored procedure.
SELECT * from DatabaseName.information_schema.routines
WHERE routine_type = 'PROCEDURE' -- in results, scroll to the right and find the ROUTINE DEFINITION cell, copy that text and paste into a text editor to see code that created the procedure.
-- how to see the last time a stored procedure has been run. Look for Last_Execution_Time in results table.
SELECT a.execution_count ,
OBJECT_NAME(objectid) Name,
query_text = SUBSTRING(
b.text,
a.statement_start_offset/2,
( CASE WHEN a.statement_end_offset = -1
THEN len(convert(nvarchar(max), b.text)) * 2
ELSE a.statement_end_offset
END - a.statement_start_offset)/2
) ,
b.dbid ,
dbname = db_name(b.dbid) ,
b.objectid ,
a.creation_time,
a.last_execution_time,
a.*
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats a
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(a.sql_handle) as b
WHERE OBJECT_NAME(objectid) = 'YOURPROCEDURENAME'
ORDER BY a.last_execution_time DESC