Question

I’m having trouble with a table function i created in sqlserver 2008.

I created it in my local db and it appears as:

[dbo].MyFunction when i view it in management studio.

but when i create the function on the live db (im using shared hosting btw) it appears as:

[myusername].MyFunction when i view it in management studio.

This is causing me problems as I am using sqlmetal to generate classes based on the db.
I’d rather the names were consistent for both db’s

How can I rename it? as i tried modifying it but tthat didnt work

Answer 1

Run the following statement (with a user which has sufficient permissions)

exec sp_rename '[myusername].MyFunction', '[dbo].MyFunction'

When your user is not member of the db_owner role, any object your create without specifying the schema will be created in your “user schema”

To prevent this in the future, create your function as:

create function dbo.MyFunction()
returns ...