Delete all stored procedures at once in SQL Server database

In this post we will about how to delete all stored procedures at once in SQL Server 2008 database. Also you can check out my previous posts on:

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There different approach to delete all stored procedures in SQL Server 2008.

Approach-1:

SELECT 'DROP PROCEDURE ' + p.NAME
FROM sys.procedures p

The above command will generate the DROP PROCEDURE statement like below:

And then you can copy those statements and put it in a new query window and run the commands.

Approach-2:

DECLARE @procedureName varchar(500)
DECLARE cur CURSOR FOR SELECT [name] FROM sys.objects WHERE type = 'p' OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @procedureName
WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
BEGIN EXEC('DROP PROCEDURE ' + @procedureName)
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @procedureName
END CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur

Hope it will work for you.