Connecting to SQL Server with an alias

We have a soon-to-be legacy Sql Server called X. We have several queries on
various other servers configured to talk to X thru a linked server that go
something like:
SELECT [columnName] FROM [X].[DBName].[dbo].[TableName]
X will now be hosted on a new machine called Y.
So my question is, is there a way of aliasing our new server called "Y" so
that it can be refered to as "X"?
TIA//I believe that you can do this using sp_addlinkedserver. Check out Books Onl
ine
(sp_addlinkedserver), the second example in the table. This suggests that yo
u can specify some other
name for the linked server than the network name.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
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"Chris Newby" <Chris.Newby@.Rockcreekglobal.com> wrote in message
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> We have a soon-to-be legacy Sql Server called X. We have several queries o
n various other servers
> configured to talk to X thru a linked server that go something like:
> SELECT [columnName] FROM [X].[DBName].[dbo].[TableName
]
> X will now be hosted on a new machine called Y.
> So my question is, is there a way of aliasing our new server called "Y" so
that it can be refered
> to as "X"?
> TIA//
>|||So you are using a linked server to achive the connection to the server
X. Defining a server alias within the network client tool should do the
trick.
HTH, jens Suessmeyer.