Aliasing servername

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Aliasing servername

SkyBVI

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July 21, 2010 at 3:03 pm

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is there a method to avoid writing the server name in a query..
like xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename1 A
xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename2 B
xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename3 C
so in this case xyx(servername) comes as many times as we want to alias the table
Can i avoid writing xyz?
Sushant
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Sushant Kumar
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Ben Teraberry SSChampion Points: 11845 More actions · Answer 1

sushantkumar1984 (7/21/2010)
is there a method to avoid writing the server name in a query..
like xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename1 A
xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename2 B
xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename3 C
so in this case xyx(servername) comes as many times as we want to alias the table
Can i avoid writing xyz?
Sushant

If you're logging into server xyz:

use dbname

go

dbo.tablename1 A

dbo.tablename2 B

dbo.tablename3 C

└> bt

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SkyBVI SSCoach Points: 15128 More actions · Answer 2

no im not logging into xyz server..

im using it as a linked server as my query takes output from 2 servers..

is there a way?

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Sushant Kumar
MCTS,MCP

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323507 More actions · Answer 3

sushantkumar1984 (7/21/2010)
is there a method to avoid writing the server name in a query..
like xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename1 A
xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename2 B
xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename3 C
so in this case xyx(servername) comes as many times as we want to alias the table
Can i avoid writing xyz?
Sushant

the only thing close to what you are after is synonyms...but a synonym must be related to an object...TABLE/FUNCTION/VIEW/PROC, which the server is not.

so you can create a synonym for the specific tables on xyz.dbname.dbo.....

CREATE SYNONYM A FOR xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename1

CREATE SYNONYM B FOR xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename2

CREATE SYNONYM C FOR xyz.dbname.dbo.tablename3

SELECT * FROM A

INNER JOIN B ON A.ID = B.ID

Lowell

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SkyBVI SSCoach Points: 15128 More actions · Answer 4

@ lowell

thanks it worked...

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Sushant Kumar
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SkyBVI SSCoach Points: 15128 More actions · Answer 5

@ lowell

So the synonyms A,B and C which i created will be local to database level or server level..?

and how to deallocate those synonyms once the use is over?

thanks

Sushant

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Sushant Kumar
MCTS,MCP

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sushantkumar1984 (7/22/2010)
@ lowell
So the synonyms A,B and C which i created will be local to database level or server level..?
and how to deallocate those synonyms once the use is over?
thanks
Sushant
Virgin Islands

I know you can have synonyms that are wider in context that the current database, but i'd have to google it up; generally if you were in a specific database and ran that ADD SYNONYM script, then they are available only in that database...so if you went to the "SandBox" database and ran the drop code below, it would probably fail since it's not in that database.

since a synonym is an object you have to drop it:

drop synonym A

drop synonym B

drop synonym C

Lowell

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SkyBVI SSCoach Points: 15128 More actions · Answer 7

@ lowell

got it....

thanks a lot

Sushant

Virgin Islands

Regards
Sushant Kumar
MCTS,MCP