Daniel Hutmacher has a fun trick for us:
Here’s a quick tip that touches on one of the powerful SSMS tricks in my “Management Studio Level-Up” presentation. Say you have a potentially large number of database objects (procedures, functions, views, what have you), and you need to make a search-and-replace kind of change to all of those objects.
You could, of course, put the database in source control and use a proper IDE to replace everything, then check your code back into source control and commit it to the database. That’s obviously the grown-up solution. Thanks for reading this post.
But let’s say for the sake of argument that you haven’t put your database in version control. What’s the lazy option here?
Even if you do have everything in source control, the first part is still quite useful just in case there’s schema drift.