Change Schema Name Of Table In SQL

I want to change schema name of table Employees in Database. In the current table Employees database schema name is dbo I want to change it to exe. How can I do it ?

Example:

FROM

dbo.Employees

TO

exe.Employees

I tried with this query:

ALTER SCHEMA exe TRANSFER dbo.Employees

But this gives me an error:

Cannot alter the schema 'exe', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.

What did I miss?

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11 Answers

Create Schema :

IF (NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.schemas WHERE name = 'exe'))
BEGIN EXEC ('CREATE SCHEMA [exe] AUTHORIZATION [dbo]')
END

ALTER Schema :

ALTER SCHEMA exe TRANSFER dbo.Employees

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ALTER SCHEMA NewSchema TRANSFER [OldSchema].[TableName]

I always have to use the brackets when I use the ALTER SCHEMA query in SQL, or I get an error message.

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Try below

declare @sql varchar(8000), @table varchar(1000), @oldschema varchar(1000), @newschema varchar(1000) set @oldschema = 'dbo' set @newschema = 'exe' while exists(select * from sys.tables where schema_name(schema_id) = @oldschema) begin select @table = name from sys.tables where object_id in(select min(object_id) from sys.tables where schema_name(schema_id) = @oldschema) set @sql = 'alter schema ' + @newschema + ' transfer ' + @oldschema + '.' + @table exec(@sql) end

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CREATE SCHEMA exe AUTHORIZATION [dbo]
GO
ALTER SCHEMA exe
TRANSFER dbo.Employees
GO

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Through SSMS, I created a new schema by:

• Clicking the Security folder in the Object Explorer within my server,
• right clicked Schemas
• Selected "New Schema..."
• Named my new schema (exe in your case)
• Hit OK

I found this post to change the schema, but was also getting the same permissions error when trying to change to the new schema. I have several databases listed in my SSMS, so I just tried specifying the database and it worked:

USE (yourservername)
ALTER SCHEMA exe TRANSFER dbo.Employees 

Your Code is:

FROM dbo.Employees
TO exe.Employees

I tried with this query.

ALTER SCHEMA exe TRANSFER dbo.Employees

Just write create schema exe and execute it

Check out MSDN...

CREATE SCHEMA:

Then

ALTER SCHEMA:

Or you can check it on on SO...

How do I move a table into a schema in T-SQL

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In case, someone looking for lower version -

For SQL Server 2000:

sp_changeobjectowner @objname = 'dbo.Employess' , @newowner ='exe'

Make sure you're in the right database context in SSMS. Got the same error as you, but I knew the schema already existed. Didn't realize I was in 'MASTER' context. ALTER worked after I changed context to my database.

Be very very careful renaming objects in sql. You can cause dependencies to fail if you are not fully away with what you are doing. Having said that this works easily(too much so) for renaming things provided you have access proper on the environment:

exec sp_rename 'Nameofobject', 'ReNameofobject'

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also you can transfer your data from default schema 'dbo' to your schema from wizard by 1-double click on db diagram 2- right click on your certian entity --> select properties 3- on right at identity , change the schema name

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