Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/18/06 11:42

(testbox@magaff.co.uk) writes:
> I have a MSSQL2000 box with a large database containing circa 150 SP's.
> I want to move the DB to another SQL machine, but many of the SP's have
> references to the name of the current machine. Is there any way to
> batch edit the procedures to refer to the new server, disassociating
> the old machine completely?

Check out the files from the version-control system, and use an editor
like Textpad to do search/replace in the files.

You don't have the code under version-control? Well, you should. :-) You
can always script out the procedures from Enterprise Manager and then
apply the same procedure. In this case, it's probably easier to have all
in one file.

I don't really know why have the machine code hard-coded all over the
place. Maybe it would be better to use @@servername, so you don't have
to redo the exercise next time you move?


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