We have several databases, say DB1, DB2, DB3 etc.
They have to have identical code base, so we use a DB project in Visual Studio 2012 and generate a SQL script for deployment based on comparison between the project and UAT/Prod DB1. Then this script is applied to DB1-DBn.
For the very first time in the history of this DB project I had to create a function that contained a hardcoded database name, example:
inner join DB1.schema.table1 as t1 on
And now the project cannot be built or comparison cannot be updated or script generated (Update and Generate Script buttons disabled) due to a number of errors pertaining to that database reference, as VS seems to believe that DB1 does not exist.
I tried to add a project level SQLCMD variable $(DB)
and set it to DB1
default value and use it as
inner join [$(DB1)].schema.table1 as t1 on
to work around the errors, but it did not seem to make any difference.
Edit:
A suggestion was made to add a circular project reference to itself and assign to it the same variable I was trying to add manually, not sure how to accomplish that.