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bkubicek
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Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:01 AM
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A Search and Replace Script when Moving Objects from Prod to Test
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jwalsh84
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Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 7:51 AM
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Sigh...the ideas we need to come up with sometimes to make things easier. Thanks for the post Ben.
Thankfully MS added Synonyms to SQL Server 2005 to make this process easier for everyone.
-James
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pbarbin
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Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 7:53 AM
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Thanks for the article. I had to do a similar thing for our development and test environment. We have two databases in production that have views that point to the other database. Therefore, if we wanted to run 2 separate copies of these databases, we'd run into hardcoded names in the procedural code. So I wrote a similar script to make the changes.
FYI, I used the Sys.Sql_Modules catalog view instead of sp_helptext.
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Aaron N. Cutshall
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Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:01 AM
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We have a similar situation using SS2005, however we use synonyms. When I worked on SS2000, I used linked databases to provide a layer of abstraction.
"...when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God." -- Mosiah 2:17
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Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:08 AM
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I agree that there are better solutions, this script helps you when you have a legacy system that you didn't design. We all have those.
Btw, be careful with the replace command. If you have "CREATE TABLE" statements in your stored procedures, this will change them to "ALTER" table statements.
I solved this by finding the words CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE PROC, CREATE TRIGGER, CREATE FUNCTION, etc with several variations (like 2 and 3 spaces between the words -- remember I didn't write these!). Regular expressions might be a better solution, but mine works.
I made sure that my script replaced all known variations in production until the changed rows matches the number of procedures in production.
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bkubicek
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Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:29 AM
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Hey James, glad you liked the article. I was pretty happy when I figured this out. I had been thinking about a solution to this for some time. It was nice when I finally figured one out.
Ben
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Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:32 AM
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Thanks for your suggestions on the replace. I did feel that part of the code was a little weak. Perhaps your suggestions will be in version two of this script.
Ben
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Ben,
Thanks for the article. I have to agree with the others, sometimes the hoops we jump through (to make our job a little easier) are astounding. Nice solution.
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Hey Jason,
I am glad you liked the article. By the way I like your sqlservercentral name. CirquedeSQLeil is very clever. I have seen their show, it was enjoyable.
Ben
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bkubicek (2/3/2010)
Hey Jason,
I am glad you liked the article. By the way I like your sqlservercentral name. CirquedeSQLeil is very clever. I have seen their show, it was enjoyable.
Ben
I have yet to see one of their shows "live." I like very much what they do/achieve. I thought it was fitting with location and job.
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