Question

Can you please advise on how to write this code properly:

declare @str nvarchar(50)
Set @str = '[table1].[column_name1]'
sp_RENAME @str, 'column2', 'COLUMN'

It currently gives an error

Incorrect syntax near ‘sp_RENAME’

This should be equivalent with:

sp_RENAME '[table1].[column1]', '[column2]', COLUMN

that is used to rename a column from a table.

I need to use the first method because this happens as a general step in a procedure.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

I just tried your code and had no problems at all, could it be that you forgot to use “execute” to call the stored procedure?

declare @str nvarchar(50)
Set @str = '[table1].[column_name1]'
execute sp_RENAME @str, 'column2', 'COLUMN'