This is very useful especially in cases where the user wishes to programmatically modify database objects having dependencies and therefore, he/she needs to resolve these dependencies before being able to proceed with the database object modification.
For efficiently tracking dependencies in SQL Server 2008, a new System View (sys.sql_expression_dependencies) and two Dynamic Management Functions (DMFs – sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities, sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities) are introduced.
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