Question

In my T-SQL script, I refer to same long table name several times. I use this query on different tables.

Is there a way to refer a table name by variable? If so, I can simple declare one variable at the top which script will use and just by setting value, I can run it on various tables without making changes in the script.

Answer 1

You could create a synonym for that table but obviously you’d need to make sure that nobody changed the definition of the synonym whilst the script was running (and no parallel invocations of the script)

Are you running these in SSMS? If so you could set SQL CMD mode (on the “Query” menu) and use

:setvar tablename "spt_values" 

use master

select * from $(tablename)