Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/15/07 21:10

Ed Murphy (emurphy42@socal.rr.com) writes:
> The problem is that the name of the source database varies from
> one system to another, so I want to pass the database name as a
> parameter. I think I could do the following, but is there a
> better way to go about it?

On SQL 2005 you could use synonyms:

CREATE SYNONYM mytable AS thatdatabase.dbo.hertable

When you move to a new database you only need to update the synonyms.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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