Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/16/07 09:23

Ed Murphy (emurphy42@socal.rr.com) writes:
> Erland Sommarskog wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Alas, this is SQL 2000 (or at least I expect it will be in a
> significant number of cases).

Then the best may be to have a stored procedure in the other database
to retreive that data. You still need to construct the procedure name
dynamically, but since EXEC accepts a variable for the procedure name,
you don't have to use dynamic SQL.

That is you can say:

SELECT @sp_name = @dbname + '..that_sp'
EXEC @sp_name


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

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