In the View Synchronization Status dialog box, click Start. Right-click the subscription you want to synchronize, and then click View Synchronization Status. When synchronization is complete, the message Synchronization completed is displayed and ClickĤ. After you rename the objects in the publication database, please add the article to publication andĬreate a new snapshot for the publication.Ĥ.
#SQL SERVER RENAME TABLE HOW TO#
For how to drop the subscription to a particular article, please refer to the article:ģ. After setting the required connection and database, specify the path and file name for the output, set up a few other options, and click Generate to launch the generation. Invoke the Generate Scripts Wizard from the Database menu > Tasks > Generate Scripts. Use the detach and attach feature of SQL Server to detach the database first and when you reattach the database you give the database a different name. With dbForge Studio for SQL Server, you can easily export database schemas. The issue was, some tables were imported from some sources but their names were not as per the database standards. Right Click on the object in Object Explorer and select 'Rename' Step 2. Recently, I came across with a nice question in a forum, how to mass/bulk rename sql tables. The change tables used by change data capture contain columns that mirror the column structure of a tracked source table, along with the metadata. Method 1: To rename an object using SQL Server Management Studio: Step 1. 'Change data capture is designed to capture insert, update, and delete activity applied to SQL Server tables, and to make the details of the changes available in an easily consumed relational format. If you drop an article, for example, a table that is related to other published articles through foreign key constraints, please drop the table at the Subscriber.Ģ.Since the article is dropped after subscription is created, please drop the subscription to the article. Option 4 - Rename SQL Server database using detach and attach. To rename an object in SQL Server you can use sprename system stored procedure or you can do this via Object Explorer in SQL Server Management Studio. If you do this properly as the following steps, there would be no data loss.ġ. The following example demonstrates the SQL Server rename column using the SPRENAME stored procedure. According to my knowledge, the only way to rename the published articles is to drop the articles and add the articles.