Question

I have a tool that generates a DDL script

create table ATTRIBUTE_VALUE (
    id int identity not null,
    version int null,
);

create table BADGE (
    id int identity not null,
    version int null,
    cms_ci_ref varchar(255) not null unique,
    primary key (id)
);

/* more tables */

Notice that the table names are not prefixed by the schema name – I have no control over this. I want to create these tables in myschema, and am hoping there’s some command I can execute before loading this script that will set the current schema to myschema, so that I can then use the DDL without modification.

Something like….

use myschema;
load ddl;

Does SQL Server provide a command like this?

Answer 1

Yes, if using a SQL Server login.

ALTER USER ... WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = myschema

Notes from my link:

DEFAULT_SCHEMA cannot be specified for a user who is mapped to a Windows group,

The value of DEFAULT_SCHEMA is ignored if the user is a member of the sysadmin fixed server role. All members of the sysadmin fixed server role have a default schema of dbo.