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October 26, 2018

Uncovering Hidden Complexity

Filed under: Miscelleaneous SQL,SQL Scripts,SQLServerPedia Syndication,Technical Articles — Michael J. Swart @ 12:15 pm

The other day, Erin Stellato asked a question on twitter about the value of nested SPs. Here’s how I weighed in:

Hidden complexity has given me many problems in the past. SQL Server really really likes things simple and so it’s nice to be able to uncover that complexity. Andy Yun has tackled this problem for nested views with his sp_helpexpandview.

Here’s what I came up with for nested anything. It helps unravel a tree of dependencies based on information found in sys.triggers and sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities. With it, you can see what’s involved when interacting with objects. Here’s what things look like for Sales.SalesOrderDetail in AdventureWorks2014. A lot of the resulting rows can be ignored, but there can be surprises in there too.

A lot in there

DECLARE @object_name SYSNAME = 'Sales.SalesOrderDetail';
 
WITH dependencies AS
(
    SELECT @object_name AS [object_name],
           CAST(
             QUOTENAME(OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(OBJECT_ID(@object_name))) + '.' + 
             QUOTENAME(OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID(@object_name)))
             as sysname) as [escaped_name],
           [type_desc],
           object_id(@object_name) AS [object_id],
           1 AS is_updated,
           CAST('/' + CAST(object_id(@object_name) % 10000 as VARCHAR(30)) + '/' AS hierarchyid) as tree,
           0 as trigger_parent_id
      FROM sys.objects 
     WHERE object_id = object_id(@object_name)
 
    UNION ALL
 
    SELECT CAST(OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(o.[object_id]) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(o.[object_id]) as sysname),
           CAST(QUOTENAME(OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(o.[object_id])) + '.' + QUOTENAME(OBJECT_NAME(o.[object_id])) as sysname),
           o.[type_desc],
           o.[object_id],
           CASE o.[type] when 'U' then re.is_updated else 1 end,
           CAST(d.tree.ToString() + CAST(o.[object_id] % 10000 as VARCHAR(30)) + '/' AS hierarchyid),
           0 as trigger_parent_id
      FROM dependencies d
     CROSS APPLY sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities(d.[escaped_name], default) re
      JOIN sys.objects o
           ON o.object_id = isnull(re.referenced_id, object_id(ISNULL(re.referenced_schema_name,'dbo') + '.' + re.referenced_entity_name))
     WHERE tree.GetLevel() < 10
       AND re.referenced_minor_id = 0
       AND o.[object_id] <> d.trigger_parent_id
       AND CAST(d.tree.ToString() as varchar(1000)) not like '%' + CAST(o.[object_id] % 10000 as varchar(1000)) + '%'
 
     UNION ALL
 
     SELECT CAST(OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(t.[object_id]) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(t.[object_id]) as sysname),
            CAST(QUOTENAME(OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(t.[object_id])) + '.' + QUOTENAME(OBJECT_NAME(t.[object_id])) as sysname),
            'SQL_TRIGGER',
            t.[object_id],
            0 AS is_updated,
            CAST(d.tree.ToString() + CAST(t.object_id % 10000 as VARCHAR(30)) + '/' AS hierarchyid),
            t.parent_id as trigger_parent_id
       FROM dependencies d
       JOIN sys.triggers t
            ON d.[object_id] = t.parent_id
      WHERE d.is_updated = 1
        AND tree.GetLevel() < 10
        AND CAST(d.tree.ToString() as varchar(1000)) not like '%' + cast(t.[object_id] % 10000 as varchar(1000)) + '%'
)
SELECT replicate('—', tree.GetLevel() - 1) + ' ' + [object_name], 
       [type_desc] as [type],
       tree.ToString() as dependencies       
  FROM dependencies
 ORDER BY tree

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