Sometimes it is necessary to get knowledge of the usage of your table columns. This little stored procedure is looking in all tables, views, functions and stored procedures for your column. But remember only user created objects will be scanned. The stored procedure for this functionality is stored in the master database, so it can be used for all databases in your instance. 
  The procedure takes two parameters:
     - @SEARCHSTRING – Column you are looking for
     - @DB_NAME – Scanned database
  
  USE master;   
GO
     
IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.usp_SearchColumnUsage', 'P') IS NOT NULL    
    DROP PROCEDURE dbo.usp_SearchColumnUsage    
GO    
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.usp_SearchColumnUsage    
(    
     @SEARCHSTRING NVARCHAR(100) = NULL    
    ,@DB_NAME NVARCHAR(100) = NULL    
)    
AS    
BEGIN 
      DECLARE @cmd NVARCHAR(4000) = 
      'USE [' + LTRIM(RTRIM(@DB_NAME)) + ']; 
      /* Searchs für Stored Procs und Functions*/   
    select    
     [SCHEMA] = sm.name    
    ,[NAME] = so.name    
      ,[OBJECTTYPE] = CASE so.TYPE    
                        WHEN ''FN'' THEN ''UserDefinedFunction''    
                        WHEN ''P'' THEN ''StoredProcedure''    
                        ELSE ''UNKNOWN''    
                    END 
      from sys.all_sql_modules s_all   
    JOIN sys.objects so ON s_all.object_id = so.object_id    
    JOIN sys.schemas sm ON sm.schema_id = so.schema_id    
    WHERE s_all.definition LIKE ''%' + @SearchString + '%'' 
      UNION   
    /* query in Tables */    
    select    
     [SCHEMA] = t.TABLE_SCHEMA    
    ,[NAME] = t.TABLE_NAME    
    ,[OBJECTTYPE] = ''Table''    
    from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS c    
    JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t ON     
        c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME AND    
        c.TABLE_SCHEMA = t.TABLE_SCHEMA    
    WHERE c.COLUMN_NAME LIKE ''%' + @SearchString + '%'' 
      UNION   
    /* query in Views */    
    select    
     [SCHEMA] = t.TABLE_SCHEMA    
    ,[NAME] = t.TABLE_NAME    
    ,[OBJECTTYPE] = ''View''    
    from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS c    
    JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS t ON     
        c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME AND    
        c.TABLE_SCHEMA = t.TABLE_SCHEMA    
    WHERE c.COLUMN_NAME LIKE ''%' + @SearchString + '%'' 
      ORDER BY [SCHEMA], [NAME], [OBJECTTYPE]   
    '    
    EXECUTE sp_executesql @cmd    
END 
  GO 
  EXECUTE master.dbo.usp_SearchColumnUsage @SEARCHSTRING = 'TABLE_SCHEMA', @DB_NAME = 'master'