Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.

I saw someone trying to get the database context recently and they were confused. They had some code referencing @dbname, but received an error with this code. I thought maybe they meant @@DBMAME, but when I looked, there isn’t a variable tracked by SQL Server.

A quick search (really experimenting with SQL Prompt) showed me there is a DB_NAME() function. Without a parameter, this returns my current context. That’s useful in programming systems.

If I pass in a database ID, I get the name.

I haven’t typically had an issue here. In code, if I doubt anything, I issue a USE statement to set context, but if you are looking to take actions in a generic script based on the database, this can help.

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