Vipul Shah's SQL Blogs : T-SQLhttp://blogs.technet.com/vipulshah/archive/tags/T-SQL/default.aspxTags: T-SQLen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)How to parse the view definition and get the base tables and base columns informationhttp://blogs.technet.com/vipulshah/archive/2007/03/06/how-to-parse-the-view-definition-and-get-the-base-tables-and-base-columns-information.aspxTue, 06 Mar 2007 18:36:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:677284vishah0http://blogs.technet.com/vipulshah/comments/677284.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/vipulshah/commentrss.aspx?PostID=677284<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">You can use INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEW_TABLE_USAGE and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEW_COLUMN_USAGE from SQL70 onwards. And you can use sys.sql_dependencies in SQL Server 2005. </SPAN><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=677284" width="1" height="1">T-SQL