Manipulating Databases
Other core administration tasks include renaming, dropping, deleting, detaching, and attaching databases. These tasks are examined in this section.
Renaming a Database
Although you cannot rename system databases, you can rename user databases using either SQL Server Management Studio or the ALTER DATABASE MODIFY NAME statement. With the database in single-user or offline mode, right-click the database name in SQL Server Management Studio and select Rename from the shortcut menu. Then type the database name and press Tab.
To use T-SQL to put the database in single-user mode and change the name, complete the following steps:
Ask all users to disconnect from the database. Make sure that all SQL Server Management Studio connections ...
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