Question

I need to execute the following statement

ALTER DATABASE DatabaseName ...

in my .sql script. But I want to keep my script neutral to the specific database. So I want to make ALTER DATABASE work on the current database. I hoped DatabaseName is optional parameter, but according to documentation, it is not.

Answer 1

Database name is required and you cannot even put it in a parameter.

But you can use ‘exec’ instead

    declare @stmt varchar(max)
    set @stmt = 'alter database....'
    exec (@stmt)

It is not very elegant, but i believe it is the only way to do it