Question

I need help with SQL Server Table Column.
I´m trying to rename Column Name, but this doesn’t work.

USE COST_mesta_test
GO
EXEC sp_rename '[dbo].[1965$].obec' , 'people' , 'COLUMN'
GO

I tried different combination of brackets [] and path to table “obec”
(for example: 1965.obec; 1965$.obec; 1965.[obec]; etc.)
But still i get an error:

Either the parameter @objname is ambiguous or the claimed @objtype
(COLUMN) is wrong.

Answer 1

I don’t really understand how your table is set up – ie. the table name, the column name etc – so this is an example of how the proc works for column renames:

If I had a table like this:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Company](
[ID] [int],
[CompanyName] [varchar](20)
)

and wanted to change the [CompanyName] column, this is the command:

EXEC sys.sp_rename 
    @objname = N'dbo.Company.CompanyName', 
    @newname = 'Name', 
    @objtype = 'COLUMN'

I suspect that your first argument is not correct.

From the documentation (sp_rename (Transact-SQL))

If the object to be renamed is a column in a table, object_name must be in the form table.column or schema.table.column. If the object to be renamed is an index, object_name must be in the form table.index or schema.table.index