Comments on: SQL SERVER – Renaming SP is Not Good Idea – Renaming Stored Procedure Does Not Update sys.procedures

By: Puneet

Puneet — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:20:05 +0000

Thanks a lot for this wonderful information, sometimes we take it so casually to rename a store procedure.

By: Shivanand Arur

Shivanand Arur — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:39:27 +0000

This is really helpful… Thank u Pinal Sir. Cheers!!! :)

By: vikas singh

vikas singh — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:01:38 +0000

I think that name updated with respect to object id in SYS.procedures but for that same id text did not updated in syscomments table.

By: Daniel Agger

Daniel Agger — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:55:04 +0000

What is the drawback or issue if the name is not updated in sys.procedures?

By: sangeeth

sangeeth — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:30:37 +0000

hi sir
i think when we rename a stored procedure it is updated in sys.procedure. but it is not updated in syscomments..

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:22:00 +0000

Thanks for the information, very useful. Wouldn’t of thought of this.

By: ashish

ashish — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:36:36 +0000

Hello Abhishek.
I perform the same as you mentioned above, I found the procedure name is updated in sys.procedures.

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:06:42 +0000

You can make use of ALTER procedure command

ALTER procedure sp_jagdish
as
your select statement here

By: Pgmer

Pgmer — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:35:02 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Nice and usefull artical. I have experianced this problem now. As you and jacob mentioned, its better to drop the object and recreate it.

By: jagdish

jagdish — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:54:21 +0000

helo sir,
i was reading ur suggestion and try to solve my problems…
after creating the stored procedure ,if i want to delete that procedure so what can i do for that?

like–
create procedure sp_jagdish
as
select * from jagdish

using this procedure i want rename the one of column name, so how could i do this? If i want to delete this procedure so how could i do this? pls tell me the answer.

By: Alireza Haghshenas

Alireza Haghshenas — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:51:58 +0000

Hi.

I open the procedure in Visual studio, and see the old name after the “Alter procedure” as you said. It’s not unexpected that saving this procedure fails. My solution was to change the name that comes after the “Alter procedure” to the new one and everything is fine ever since.

thanks,
Alireza

By: Abhishek Sahay

Abhishek Sahay — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:30:45 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I read the article and tried to follow the same.
Though after executing sp_helptext, I saw that the name is not changed, but when i see in the sys.procedures, i found that the name of the procedure is changed i.e the sys.procedures system table do get updated.
Pls check and clarify if I am going wrong.

Thanks in advance.
Abhishek

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:31:35 +0000

I request all the readers of my article to read the article posted by Jacob here. It explains in depth the why this happens and how to avoid it.

http://jacobsebastian.blogspot.com/2008/09/be-careful-when-renaming.html

Summary of the article must be memorized by any developer.

Regards,
Pinal

By: Jacob sebastian

Jacob sebastian — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:21:43 +0000

Thanks Pinal for initiating this discussion. I found this bit interesting and investigated it further. I was curious how SSMS manages this, because when you generate the ALTER/CREATE script from SSMS it generates the correct object name.

I have posted my findings here: http://jacobsebastian.blogspot.com/2008/09/be-careful-when-renaming.html

By: Jacob sebastian

Jacob sebastian — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:07:22 +0000

Nice post, Pinal. I know many people just rename stored procedures, functions, views etc right from the Management Studio and land up with this problem.

Just wanted to add that this problem exists with Views, Triggers and Functions too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188351(SQL.90).aspx