Change Schema Name Of Table In SQL

Question

I want to change schema name of table Employees in Database. In the current table Employees database schema name is dbo I want to chan

Answer 1

Be very very careful renaming objects in sql. You can cause dependencies to fail if you are not fully away with what you are doing. Having said that this works easily(too much so) for renaming things provided you have access proper on the environment:

exec sp_rename 'Nameofobject', 'ReNameofobject'

Answer 2

Check out MSDN...

CREATE SCHEMA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189462.aspx

Then

ALTER SCHEMA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173423.aspx

Or you can check it on on SO...

How do I move a table into a schema in T-SQL

Answer 3

Make sure you're in the right database context in SSMS. Got the same error as you, but I knew the schema already existed. Didn't realize I was in 'MASTER' context. ALTER worked after I changed context to my database.

Answer 4

Create Schema :

IF (NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.schemas WHERE name = 'exe')) 
BEGIN
    EXEC ('CREATE SCHEMA [exe] AUTHORIZATION [dbo]')
END

ALTER Schema :

ALTER SCHEMA exe 
    TRANSFER dbo.Employees

Answer 5

Try below

declare @sql varchar(8000), @table varchar(1000), @oldschema varchar(1000), @newschema   varchar(1000)

  set @oldschema = 'dbo'
  set @newschema = 'exe'

 while exists(select * from sys.tables where schema_name(schema_id) = @oldschema)

  begin
      select @table = name from sys.tables 
      where object_id in(select min(object_id) from sys.tables where  schema_name(schema_id)  = @oldschema)

    set @sql = 'alter schema ' + @newschema + ' transfer ' + @oldschema + '.' + @table

   exec(@sql)
 end

Answer 6

ALTER SCHEMA NewSchema TRANSFER [OldSchema].[TableName]

I always have to use the brackets when I use the ALTER SCHEMA query in SQL, or I get an error message.