How to get the definition of a stored procedure in a Linked Server?

Question

I need to get the definition of a stored procedure, from another different server. When I want to see the definition locally, I can do something like:

SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM sysobjects
WHERE name = 'procedure_name'

When I want to see how this same stored procedure is currently, I tried to do this, since it's on a linked server:

SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM [xxx.xx.xxx.xx].DBName.dbo.sysobjects
WHERE name = 'procedure_name'

It runs okay, no error, but I get the definition of my local procedure, not the one on the remote server. Is there a way to do this? I couldn't seem to find any information about this case.

Answer 1

You might try:

EXECUTE 
(
    '
    SELECT 
        OBJECT_DEFINITION(
            OBJECT_ID(N''dbo.ProcName'', ''P''))
    '
) AT [LinkedServer]