Showing posts with label change db name by query. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change db name by query. Show all posts

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