Chad Callihan finds the DDL for a view:
I recently faced a situation where I had to track down the definition of a particular SQL view for various databases. I didn’t want to click through each database in SSMS to gather the information. I thought I would write a query that I could use to save some clicks and gather what I needed for each database.
The first part of that task, querying for the view definition, may be a bit tricky. I would venture to guess it may not be in the first couple of places you would think to look. Let’s walk through how we can use a query to retrieve the definition of a view.
Just make sure that you have newline retention on or else your view definition is all going on one line.