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I have several database names which exist on local, dev and live servers.
I want to ensure a potentially dangerous T-SQL script will always use the local db and not any other db by accident.
I can’t seem to use the [USE] keyword with the local instance name followed by the db name.
It seems pretty trivial but I can’t seem to get it to work.
I’ve tried this but no luck:
USE [MYMACHINE/SQLEXPRESS].[DBNAME]
The instance is going to be determined through your connection/connection string. You connect to a specific instance and then all subsequent T-SQL will be executed against that instance and that instance alone.