Change Schema Name Of Table In SQL

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theChampion picture theChampion · Mar 18, 2013 · Viewed 283.1k times · Source

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?

Answer

Pandian picture Pandian · Mar 18, 2013

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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