Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/11/06 22:43

Frank Bishop (fbishop@viper.com) writes:
> I have a local install of MSDE on my workstation. I have also defined a
> linked server with another SQL Server on our network. I accepted all the
> defaults when I installed MSDE and the server got named my machine name.
> Everything is working great.
>
> Our IT department now needs to change my machine name. What effect will
> this have on my current SQL installation?

If memory serves, the server name changes automatically. However,
@@servername usually gets messed up.

To this end to:

exec sp_dropserver 'oldname'
exec sp_addserver 'newname', 'local'

Then stop and restart SQL Server.

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

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