Retrieve the name of the current database for use with bcp and other procedures that require database name.
This will help increase the portability of code and less maintenance required when migrating code to new database/server.
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.spGetDatabaseName
/*
* This will return the current database name for use
with bcp utility and other functions that require
database name.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* This requires that the user running the procedure has
at least read-only access to master..sysdatabase and
the current database..sysfiles tables.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*/
@DbName VARCHAR(50) = NULL OUTPUT
AS
SET @DbName =
(SELECT SD.[name]
FROM sysfiles SF
INNER JOIN master..sysdatabases SD
ON SF.[filename] = SD.[filename]
-- COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS)
/*
COLLATE being provided in case of SQL 2K server database
having different collation than server default
*/ 
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