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Add/Rename SQL Server 2005 Server Name

itspirit — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:33:47 +0000

Hi experts, I have am trying to rename and add new server name to Microsoft SQL server 2005. I as using following steps for rename step 1. select @@servername ‘ for seeing current server name step 2. sp_dropserver ‘ray’ ‘ for deleting current server step 3. sp_addserver ‘raynew’, local ‘ for adding new servername step 4. select @@servername ‘ for seeing new servername added or not i am getting new server name but unable to login with this new server name i restarted sql services and restart system also but unable to login please help. Thanks Pardeep

anybody can tell me that how to create setup which will accept database name & server name

Vshikarpursan — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:23:34 +0000

anybody can tell me that how to create setup which will accept database name & server name trhough which i can create database in perticular server during setting up the application. i mean to say i don want create manually in sql Server, which should be created during sepup only

Changing SQL Server name and SQL Server group name

Db23 — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:18:07 +0000

Hi,

I have notice that our dev and prod SQL Server has SQL Server name and SQL Server group name that is different to the machine name.

We are planning to change it to match the machine name. To do this, from what we have read, you change the SQL Server name using the sp stored procedures to drop then re-add server with the machine name, then you change the Windows SQL Server group name replacing any reference to the old machine name with the current machine name, then you drop the SQL Server group and re-add the group. Do I need to do anything else? And most importantly is a common or risky thing to do?

Thanks.