Managing remote server names

The master.dbo.sysservers table has two server name columns:

To add or drop servers from your network, use sp_addserver to update the server’s network name in srvnetname.

For example, to remove the server MAIN from the network, and move your remote applications to a server named TEMP, use the following statement to change the network name, while keeping the local alias:

sp_addserver MAIN, null, TEMP

sp_addserver displays a message telling you that it is changing the network name of an existing server entry.