Rename objects

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Rename objects

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May 24, 2009 at 3:02 am

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Dietmar Weickert SSCrazy Points: 2398 More actions · Answer 1

Hi,

Maybe i am declaring myself as foolish, but what is the big difference between renaming an object and dropping and re-creating it with a different name (except that the later will let you lose all the object's information as well)?

Best regards,

Dietmar.

Best regards,
Dietmar Weickert.

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 2

Reference: sys.objects: (BOL)

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/f8d6163a-2474-410c-a794-997639f31b3b.htm[/url

O.K. someone explain to me where I went wrong. From sys.objects, type column appears:

type char(2) Object type:

. . . . . .. . . . .V = View

So is a View an object or isn't it?

Further from BOL How to: Rename Views

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/udb9/html/5eed0488-81d2-40e8-8fdf-b0a640a591d0.htm

The name of a view cannot be changed but, rather, a new view must be created with the desired new name and the old view definition copied into the new view.

Bold face added to highlight what I believe makes the answer qiven as the correct answer actually incorect.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736183 More actions · Answer 3

Dropping and recreating should give it a new ID, as well as change the versioning. IF there is substantial data in the object, that can take time.

Renaming just changes the meta data, and while there are restrictions, it is possible.

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 4

Edited after post by

beezell
If you create a view and use the sp_rename stored proc you can rename it. This might be an error in BOL.

Must be so, did it and you are correct it did rename the view.

My apologies to Steve Jones and to VM the author of the QOD

My lame argument that the answer was not correct as given has been removed ... since my argument was NOT correct, and I stand corrected.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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beezell Hall of Fame Points: 3112 More actions · Answer 5

If you create a view and use the sp_rename stored proc you can rename it. This might be an error in BOL.

Cheers,

Brian

Toreador SSChampion Points: 11365 More actions · Answer 6

One 'gotcha' is that if you rename a stored procedure, the code returned by sp_helptext will still have the original name 🙂

Dugi SSCoach Points: 17998 More actions · Answer 7

wow what about sys objects! in the question doesn't mention about user or system objects so for that reason the question include also the system objects - and sure that you can not rename the system objects!

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Richard Farris SSC Enthusiast Points: 146 More actions · Answer 8

While some of us got the answer right, the "right" answer was a little misleading. You actually (obviously) cannot rename system objects. So, technically, not ALL objects can be renamed. :hehe:

Kindest Regards,Rick Farris

Richard Sisk SSCrazy Points: 2727 More actions · Answer 9

You also cannot rename symmetric keys. Just fought that battle.