21 January 2012

change the database name in sqlserver using query

Supported in SQL Server 2000 and 2005
exec sp_renamedb 'databasename' , 'newdatabasename'

Supported in SQL Server 2005 and later version
ALTER DATABASE 'databasename' MODIFY NAME = 'newdatabasename'

select DB_NAME()
select name from sys.databases

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