Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/04/07 22:30

JoshG (jsgough@gmail.com) writes:
> There is one complicating factor I neglected to mention.
>
> In several tables, we have columns currently poorly named "ID_ref" or
> "CustomerID_ref". In the new version of the database, we have simply
> renamed these to ID or CustomerID.
>
> Using a view, we can easily keep using the ID_ref but map it to the
> new physical ID column in the new database.
>
> From looking at synonyms so far, I don't think you can do this kind of
> mapping. Do you know if that is the case for sure?

Right, if you are also changing column names or anything else, synonyms
are not for you.

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