I posted a recent question about making large scale changes to SSRS rdl files. The discussion has evolved from cure to prevention, and the possible use of synonyms. The scenario is that we have thousands of rdls and a respectable plenitude of them have 4-part linked server syntax like:
FROM [SERVER002\INSTANCE005].DATABASE009.dbo.client
Obviously this is a real pain when a server or db name changes. Does a synonym have to replace all 4 parts, or can it just replace the first three parts? So can we get
FROM hardware.client
instead of
FROM hardware_client
?
Cheers
GPO
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