Dropping All Stored Procedure in Database in SQL Server 2012

Introduction

In this article, I describe how to drop all the Stored Procedures in a particular database. Several times in our project we needed to drop all Stored Procedures. If there is a large number of Stored Procedures then it is very tedious to drop all of them. Here I explain how to drop all Stored Procedures in a database automatically.

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First of all we create a table.

Creation of Table

create table emp(empId int, empName varchar(15))
go
insert into emp
select 1,'Deepak'union all
select 2,'Arora'
go
select * from emp

Output

Now we create two Stored Procedures.

Creation of the first Stored Procedure

create proc usp_select
as
select * from emp
go
exec usp_select

Output

Creation of the second Stored Procedure

create proc usp_insert(@id int, @name varchar(15))
as
insert into emp values (@id, @name)
go
exec usp_insert 3,'Daljeet singh'
go
exec usp_select

Output

Now we create a Cursor

declare cur_dropProc cursor
scroll for
select [name] from sysobjects where xtype='p'

Now run the following code

open cur_dropProc
go
Declare @procName varchar(500)
fetch first from cur_dropProc into @procName
while @@fetch_status=0
begin
Exec('drop procedure ' + @procName)
fetch next from cur_dropProc into @procName
end
go
close cur_dropProc
go
deallocate cur_dropProc

Output

Now see the Stored Procedure in the Database

select [name] from sysobjects where xtype='p'

Output

Summary

In this article, I described how to drop all the Stored Procedures in a database in SQL Server. I hope this article has helped you to understand this topic. Please share if you know more about this. Your feedback and constructive contributions are welcome.