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Changing the Column Name Through StoredProcedure Dynamically

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Here’s the syntax for the stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[RenameColumn] @tblname as varchar(50), @oldcolnameas varchar(50), @newcolname as varchar(50)ASdeclare  @tblColname varchar(100)set @tblColname =  @tblname +'.' + @oldcolnameBEGIN TRANSACTIONSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONSET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLESET ARITHABORT ONSET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFFSET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ONSET ANSI_NULLS ONSET ANSI_PADDING ONSET ANSI_WARNINGS ONCOMMITBEGIN TRANSACTIONEXECUTE sp_rename   @tblColname   , @newcolname,'COLUMN'COMMITGO

Then, execute this:

exec RenameColumn 'SFDIDs','CompanyID','CID'Here SFDIDS is the table nameCompanyID is the Old column NameCID is the new column Name

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