Changing a table owner

Question

I\'m trying to change the owner of a table:

sp_changeobjectowner \'OWNER.TABLENAME\', \'dbo\'

But when executing I get the error message:

Answer 1

To cover the case where a table exists within a constructed schema name like 'Common' (that is not related to a username), then it is the schema owner that needs to be changed.

alter authorization on schema::Common TO dbo;

That will change the objects within the schema to the specified owner 'dbo' and keep the table within 'Common'.

To list schema owners:

select db_name() as Db, 
       sch.name as SchemaName, 
       u.Name as Owner
  from sys.schemas sch
  join sys.sysusers u
    on u.uid = sch.principal_id;