HOWTO: List Stored Procedures in a SQL Server Database

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
• Enterprise Edition of Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows, 32-bit only, version 4.0

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:

1. Start a new Project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.

2. Add a Command button (Command1) and a List Box (List1) to Form1.

3. Add the following code to Form1:

         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=sa; 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
   
   

4. 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.

REFERENCES

For more information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: