Creating a Stored Procedure
As I've said, you use the Transact-SQL CREATE PROCEDURE command to create stored procedures. All that really happens when you create a procedure is that its syntax is checked and its source code is inserted into the syscomments system table. Generally, object names referenced by a procedure aren't resolved until it's executed. In SQL Server parlance, this is known as deferred name resolution.
“Syscomments” is a misnomer. The table doesn't store comments per se; it stores source code. The name is a vestige from the pre-7.0 days and was so named because it stored the optional source code to stored procedures (and other objects), whereas sysprocedures stored a pseudo-compiled version (a kind of normalized query tree) ...
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