Agents Buyers' are becoming increasingly common for "Top Gun" REALTORS ®. Not the 'agent of Top Gun' often focus on time for buyers during the week, including customers, have just sold their homes to find a new home before escrow closes on the website must be sold. The following is a buyer agent handles these clients and situations, the "Top Gun" free agent for other priorities. But most agents do not use buyer agents to viewspend much time fighting with them. They fight for their management, to coach them and bring them to justice. Many "Top Gun" agents also pay a buyer's agent exorbitant Commission agrees. If they have the courage to look honestly at their company was going to realize that they are working to realize a profit buyer. This is to raise funds, without his gross compensation of dollars more. The real increase is only in their egos and their salesVolumes.

The first step in renting a buyer's agent, clearly the role you want to define that person played in the economy, as well as your expectations. Create a job description and minimum requirements of production, before hiring someone. Clearly define the time you spend in communication and coaching with this person daily and weekly newspapers.

As lead agent, you need a clear definition of the role of buyer agents. More important, you need a clear definition of theWho will be this person. What are you looking for in a buyer's agent? You can not simply be a goal that you can not see. To find the right person, you must have a goal of creating the profile of the person.

Once you have found a few candidates, you must carefully consider each of these three factors:

1. How are these candidates ability to sell? He may or sell them?

2. What kind of sales person is the use? Is the volume of business with your philosophy?

3. If thisPerson? He or she have the desire?

How are these candidates ability to sell? Selling skills are just that – skills. This person has the skills necessary to excel? He or she focused on improving the level of skill? Your buyers agent 'must have knowledge and understanding of principles that can be a successful seller. An applicant has the most beautiful people in the world, someone who really enjoy that on your team, but with limited capacity of thesePerson is not successful, a good return on your investment of time and energy.

What type of business do not use this candidate? What is this person, of course, as in a sales situation? And become invasive, or is so tame that does not ask for the order? How are your organizational skills and the structure of his time every day? You do not want to drive a person to clients with an aggressive style. Nor want the person who shows twenty-five houses, more than one buyer,Eating large amounts of time and energy for each individual. You must evaluate each style of candidates for the style that you defined for your team, and how the team fits together.

This candidate has the desire? He has what he says: "I will kill this or trying to? Is willing to put in long hours and take the refusal to get up to cruising altitude? She did really love the sales process and their work ? FHas the ability to motivate himself, or he must have a constant supply of motivation?

How "Top Gun" agent, the worst thing that leads you can make yourself and your company in the wrong person. Assess your business and your needs carefully before you commit, adding and training new employees, and assess candidates thoroughly before making appointments. With time and effort required to train a qualified agent for your system before he or she canBuilding the budget, it will take months before getting a return on investment. This is front-loading of this relationship difficult. To invest your time, effort and energy will now receive a future reward. Do not short change your company with an insufficient evaluation and selection process that you back too far in the future.

Create your employees for the long haul. You will have the biggest cost is the hiring and training of new employees. Make the right selection of the firstTime.

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Ok, let’s get back in business (after searching the net for new cool items and entertainment for later on use) here is the promised peaches.  

First-off is a mechanism created a brilliant mind out there in the world, simply modding a Nintendo 64 controller and system to the accustom of a portable handheld device. Yes, people a N64 made into portable mechanism; just think of it as a big Gameboy Color that is able to play N64 games directly; the only exception to this device is that it doesn’t include a “Z-Trigger Button” on the back. sacrifices to enjoy simple gaming.  

Second stop is the Geekologic Blog (again), but with some stunning Zelda cosplay pictures (literally); if you try to cosplay Princess Zelda, you will put yourself to shame after seeing this pictures. Some people comment that those pictures were alternated using photoshop, if true, that is some sophisticated photoshop skills.  

Third is still in the same stop, but a person is bringing a sophisticated and delicate decorated Nintendo 64 console simulated to look like Princess Peach’s Castle; very unique for its kind and well worked around the system. This is why some of us are proud to be gamers (when people don’t make foolish mistakes).  

Forth is in the same spot, but bringing the Samus love back to the streets of… here! Some new cosplayer brings their talent and arts craftmanship to the ring center stage, but it shall be hard to decide with previous entry player Pixelninja, but anything is possible in a contest, I guess?!  

Fifth is as random as it comes, the new Assassins Creed II has some reference with the so profound name of good’ol Mario; some suggest that this is like a fan tribute to the plumber who saves the princess and other sort of arrayments from Bowser and so on; but still cool.   

Sixth makes the mind boggle so much and entertains audiences to its picturize imagination of creativity; simply call this ”Super Mario Meets Star Wars” concept. Paint illustrations that are interesting and fan-tacular for the ages; and I think that they were for sale at San Francisco.  

Seventh still burns in my arter like heartburn, we know that Fatal Frame 4 didn’t get release at the States (outside of Japan), but all of this other Horror-Survival games are being release for the  Wii console (such an insult to gamers and fan base). Luckily a group of personals are working on an unofficial translation of the game, but will have to be homebrew for the channel to work. Sometime I wonder why they develop so many channel for the Wii if it has limited memory space.   

Eighth takes on the manga industry in the States, as Viz Media acquires new titles for release including Kirby; never knew that they develop a Kirby Comic Book (I think is because most of this comic books don’t get popularize until later on). 

Ninth takes on the bull by the horns as Plugged-In give out some suggestions on what games we may want to play during the holidays; do note that the majority of these titles are MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online). Depending on your taste: Dragon Age: Origins, The Quest, Grand Thief Auto: Chinatown Wars, Fallout 3, The Sims 3, and Free Realms. 

Tenth shall make differences in the U.S. as  the AOL job resources gives out some suggestion on what industries may not last long enough in the face of the Earth, it goes from Department Stores to Newspapers Stands; some we may expect to see changes but others I have doubts on. Expect to see people on horses outside the Post Office. 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10410284-17.html?tag=mncol;title  

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/11/because_i_love_you_but_mostly.php  

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/n64_mod_looks_like_super_mario.php  

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/03/im_in_love_new_samus_cosplay_g.php  

http://www.gossipgamers.com/mario-is-in-assassins-creed-2/  

http://www.gossipgamers.com/super-mario-bros-meets-star-wars/  

http://www.gossipgamers.com/want-fatal-frame-4-no-problem-english-translation-on-the-way/  

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-15/viz-confirms-kirby-manga-and-novels-by-hayashi-otsuichi  

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/six-huge-games-to-keep-you-busy-over-the-holiday/1383530 

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2009/12/17/10-industries-heading-for-extinction/?ncid=AOLCOMMjobsDYNLprim0001&icid=main|search2|dl4|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fjobs.aol.com%2Farticles%2F2009%2F12%2F17%2F10-industries-heading-for-extinction%2F%3Fncid%3DAOLCOMMjobsDYNLprim0001 

Finally, I fixed another error occuring, sorry for the delay but shall make it up with Christmas Special.

~NYORO~

Passing the BCMSN exam and getting one step closer to the CCNP certification means learning and noticing details that you were not presented with in your CCNA studies. (Yes, I know – you had more than enough details then, right?)   One protocol you’ve got to learn more details about is VTP, which seemed simple enough in your CCNA studies!  Part of learning the details is mastering the fundamentals, so in this tutorial we’ll review the basics of VTP.

In show vtp status readouts, the “VTP Operating Mode” is set to “Server” by default.  The more familiar term for VTP Operating Mode is simply VTP Mode, and Server is the default.  It’s through the usage of VTP modes that we can place limits on which switches can delete and create VLANs.

In Server mode, a VTP switch can be used to create, modify, and delete VLANs.  This means that a VTP deployment has to have at least one switch in Server mode, or VLAN creation will not be possible.  Again, this is the default setting for Cisco switches.

Switches running in Client mode cannot be used to create, modify, or delete VLANs. Clients do listen for VTP advertisements and act accordingly when VTP advertisements notify the Client of VLAN changes.

VTP Transparent mode actually means that the switch isn’t participating in the VTP domain as Servers and Clients do.  (Bear with me here.)  Transparent VTP switches don’t synchronize their VTP databases with other VTP speakers. They don’t even advertise their own VLAN information!  Therefore, any VLANs created on a Transparent VTP switch will not be advertised to other VTP speakers in the domain, making them locally significant only. (I know you remember that phrase from your CCNA studies!)

Devices running VTP Transparent mode do have a little something to do with the other switches in the VTP domain, though.  When a switch running in Transparent mode receives a VTP advertisement, that switch will forward that advertisement to other switches in that VTP domain.

Configuring switches as VTP Clients is a great way to “tie down” VLAN creation capabilities to switches that are under your physical control.  However, this occasionally leads to a situation where only the VTP clients will have ports that belong to a given VLAN, but the VLAN still has to be created on the VTP server.  (VLANs can be created and deleted in transparent mode, but those changes aren’t advertised to other switches in the VTP domain.)

In the next BCMSN tutorial, we’ll take a look at the details of VTP.

Here’s a cool product I recently found very helpful for vintage Gibson acoustic guitars with the adjustable bridge. These guitars originally came with either a wooden saddle (one of Gibson’s brilliant ideas, from the 60’s) or ceramic. I much prefer the sound of the ceramic version, because it gives a brighter sound, much like a traditional bone saddle, and it doesn’t wear as easily as the wood version. Unfortunately, finding and purchasing a vintage ceramic replacement can be very difficult and quite pricey. I’ve seen people ask way too much for these. Some owners choose to completely remove the adjustable bridge system, fill in the entire original slot with rosewood and install a stable saddle in its place. I’ve never been a fan of doing this to otherwise perfectly original instruments. I’m very opinionated about being good stewards of vintage instruments.

GIBSON WOOD SADDLE circa 1960's

GIBSON CERAMIC SADDLE circa 1960's

Recently, my good friend Bruce brought in a 1968 Gibson B-45 12 String (see 1st photo) for a fret re-crown. He was excited to have newly acquired this cool old Gibson, but because this guitar also has a trapeze tailpiece, instead of bridge pins, to secure the strings, the sound was quite dull, combined with the wood saddle. Imagine the disappointment. Enter new product…

Graph Tech "TUSQ" replacement for Gibson adjustable bridge

The folks at Graph Tech; mostly famous for graphite replacement saddles for electric guitars and “TUSQ” material for acoustic guitars, have created a great alternative to the pricey, and elusive, ceramic saddle. It is made with their “TUSQ” material and costs only $12.95. We went with it and the results are quite impressive. I am now keeping them in stock, so let me know if you need one installed!

1968 Gibson B-45 12 String with "TUSQ" replacement saddle

Here’s a cool solution to a common problem.  My good buddy Doug needed a 5 string bass with an active circuit. Problem: December is a tough month to be investing in an expensive bass, but his need was immediate. The solution: we found an inexpensive bass with lacking electronics and performed an upgrade. Doug has always been fond of Lakland basses with the pickup configuration of a Music Man Stingray style pickup in the bridge position and  Fender Jazz Bass pickup in the neck position. So we started with this OLP brand passive version of a Stingray 5 String and gutted everything but the bridge pickup. Then the fun began. I carefully located and traced where I wanted the new neck pickup to go.

Then I routed the body and installed a compatible neck pickup. In this case the best match was a Fender Standard Jazz Bass 4-string pickup. The pole pieces easily covered the width of the 5 string’s span.  I followed up with a 3-band active EQ circuit and a coil tap switch for the bridge pickup, allowing for the standard Jazz Bass configuration of 2 single coil pickups.

Lastly, I removed the soft plastic nut and replaced it with a hand-carved bone nut. After a full set-up package and a new set of strings it was time to plug in!

I must say that both Doug and I were more than surprised by the results. This configuration proved to be very versatile and useful.  He called me the next day to say that it was the best sounding bass he’s ever owned. Doug has owned some pretty high-end basses in the past, so this is really saying something. This whole project cost less than $600, including the bass! It was a huge success!

If you’ve watched my videos at all, you will know I have a stretched Labret. Mine sits at around 00g, which is about 10mm.

Stretching a labret, is a little bit more involved than stretching an ear. It is alot more taboo, it is alot more in your face (if you excuse the pun). So certainly making sure it is what you want before setting off will leave you in a good frame.

So, how do you do it? Well, its not like you can walk around with a taper hanging out of your mouth is it? So, its almost the same in certain traditions, but you have to edit the rules slightly.

I started by getting mine pierced straight to an 8g. Hurt like hell, made my toes curl, but it eliminated the original and first stage shitty stretches. You can also get it scalpelled,  pierced and stretched, or dermal punched. Scalpelling is good, if you want to get a big size instantly, but obviously you’ve got the pain threshold thing again. Pierced and stretched is what I got, and as I said it was pretty painful, dermal punching is normally for cartilidge piercings, and the best way to think of it is, its a surgical hole punch. Does exactly what it needs to, and it’ll put a hole instantly through your lip, or any part it touches.

Right, so you have your lovely freshly pierced hole, how long do you wait? Lips are a little bit different, they’re used ALL the time, every day, even when you’re asleep. I waited nearly 8mths before stretching mine, but I have to say, when I did do the initial stretch, it was incredibly easy. I’d say if you went with the more permanent options of punching and scalpel, then i’d wait nearly a year as the healing times is so much more due to the ferocity of the method used.

So, HOW do you stretch a lip piercing? I assume this works on Medusa (philtrums), Snakebites, cheeks etc..

Say you’re starting at your baby sizes of 14,16,12g then the best method I can recommend, is pull on them. Sounds crazy huh? But honestly, wear horseshoe style rings, or Ball Closure Rings, and pull at them. This will eventually start making the lip loosen up. Don’t buy externally threaded jewellery when stretching lips, as it can tear the hole, and having a swollen lip with piercings in it is uncomfortable as hell. Internally threaded jewellery is more expensive but much much better for the release of your piercing.

When I stretched my snakebites (R.I.P) I went from 1.6mm to 2mm fairly easily. Same from 2mm > 2.4mm was easy enough. But that initial stretch to 3.0mm was hard. As it went from being a .4mm stretch, to a .6mm stretch. Doesn’t sound like alot, but when you think of the increase of the hole in % its huge. Its nearly a 35% increase in the diameter of the hole. The method I used was dead stretching, which again if you go back to the first post, is the use of jewellery to increase the size of the diameter, basically pushing through bigger jewellery. You can get labret studs upto about 8g I believe. And then you may have to goto glass, or septum bullets. I’ll post images below of appropriate lip related jewellery.

I hope this information helped a bit!

And finally

by Dr. Brent Lipke DC

Between 3 and 5 % of children are considered to have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Psychiatric drugs are given to children, to treat or at least modify their symptoms, but may cause drug-induced behavioral disorders and other unwanted side effects.

Parents concerned with the effects of long term drug use on their children want better answers and better choices.

Clinical studies have reported the effectiveness of Chiropractic care for children with neurological conditions including learning disorders, hyperactivity and dyslexia.

Chiropractic improves brain function by increasing blood flow to the brain, and releasing stress on the spinal cord.  This decreases anxiety and improves brain function, allowing the child to reach their full potential.

To learn more about how a safe, gentle and scientific, Chiropractic adjustment could TRANSFORM your health contact your chiropractor. 

 If you are interested in a complimentary consultation, CALL  The Family Chiropractic Centre, 519-837-1234. 

I’m Dr. Brent Lipke, educating you to help you educate others !

(Notes taken from Robert Windham and Machele Kilgore)

I. Know Your Child’s Learning Patterns or Learning Style

A. Find out what your Child’s Modality is: Modality determines the easiest way to receive information

1. Visual: Understands and processes information best when they can visually see it. They learn by observing.

2. Auditory: Understands and processes information best when they can hear it. They learn by listening.

3. Kinesthetic: Understands and processes information best when they can be actively involved as they process the information. They learn by doing.

B. Discover your child’s Temperament Style: Determines Attitudes toward Instructional Materials and Methods.

1. Where Attention is Focused:

a. Extroversion: Focus is on the outer world of people, events, and objects

b. Introversion: Focus is on the inner world of ideas

2. How information is Acquired:

a. Sensing: Information is acquired directly through the senses.

Focus is on the concrete and the present.

b. Intuition: Information is acquired through insight, inspiration,

and hunches. Focus is on the possible and the future.

3. How Decisions are Made:

a. Thinking: Decisions are based on logical analysis and consideration of cause and effect.

b. Feeling: Decisions are based on personal values and a consideration of how the decisions will affect self and others.

4. Work Habits:

a. Judging: Prefer life to be orderly and planned.

b. Perceiving: Prefers life to be spontaneous and flexible.

C. Understand Multiple Intelligences which determine Interests and Talents

1. Verbal-Linguistic: Speaking, reading, and writing

2. Logical –Mathematical: Forming concepts and finding abstract patterns

3. Visual-Spatial: Thinking in images, pictures, shapes, and colors

4. Musical-Rhythmic: Rhyme, rhythm, and melody

5. Bodily-Kinesthetic: Touching, manipulating, moving, making, doing, balance, and coordination

6. Interpersonal (social): Relating to and cooperating with people

7. Intrapersonal (self): Independence and self-motivation

8. Naturalist: Awareness of sensitivity to the natural environment

D. List the areas that your child prefers the most in his/her learning and temperament styles and intelligences.

E. Understand that you will possibly see a level of each area in your child, but they will definitely have certain styles that they prefer or rely more strongly upon.

II. Know the Curriculum’s Teaching Patterns

A. Does the curriculum vary its approach in communicating and interacting with new information? Or, is it the same over and over again?

**Think of the different approaches you’ve seen the curriculum use for different subject areas and write them down.

B. If you were to analyze the curriculum writers, which learning or temperament styles and intelligences have they used the most? What do they use the least?

C. How does the curriculum’s emphasis on a certain learning or temperament style compare with your child’s and his intelligence strengths?

D. What areas can you think of that cause this to be beneficial or problematic?

Can you recall specific instances that your child may have had a difficult time doing an assignment simply because of the contrast in how the information was being presented?

E. You never want to solely teach to your child’s learning or temperament style. They need to develop the weaker areas of these as well, but sometimes when you are in a crunch it’s okay to cater to their strength.

For example: (Brainstorm together)

III. Know the Objective

A. What is the goal? What is the curriculum trying to teach?

B. It is important that you not blindly rely on a curriculum to have an objective and assume it is being taught as you go through the curriculum. You need to know, what you are trying to accomplish in teaching your child. Your child may need to understand and know the objective as well.

C. Here are some ideas to help you pick out the objectives, if they are not clearly listed.

1. Are they presenting new information? If so this can be an objective by itself.

2. Is the information necessary for further education? If the information they are presenting is not necessary for this moment, and can be taught at a later time if you think it better, than evaluate whether you’d like to focus on something else. You have the choice to modify – you are the teacher!

3. Are they asking the child to demonstrate understanding? Is it an assessment of some kind?

a. Assessments come in all forms; they are not just tests. Story books, writing assignments, presentations, reports, etc. are all assessments. Anything that is a measurement of what the child has learned or understood is an assessment.

b. If the assessment is not going to show their true understanding, or it can be shown in a way that better suites the child, then modify the assessment. Your objective to understand what the child has learned remains the same; it is just your method that has changed.

4. Are they asking the child to demonstrate understanding and teach a new skill at the same time?

a. If they are trying to teach a new skill along with assessing the child’s understanding, you most likely should make sure that this skill is still taught. You do not want to always change your child’s assessments if it means he or she is not learning new skills along the way.

b. For example, an oral presentation on a book report serves as the measurement of understanding of what took place in the book. However, the process and presentation is a learned skill that must be taught with specific modeling and guided instruction. This is a valuable skill that they will need to build on throughout their educational career and after.

IV. Know your Time Frame

1. Is the time frame in which the curriculum wants your child to complete the assignment reasonable?

2. Does it give enough time for you to model and teach the concept to your child in light of his or her preferred learning style? This does not mean you are catering to your child’s learning style, but if the assignment is pushing him to work in a weaker learning style, you must keep in mind that it will be more of a struggle.

3. Is it too much time? Will your child be overtaken by his or her detail orientations and spend too much time, when he or she could do it quicker? Is it too long of a time frame, and risks the chance of the child becoming bored and unmotivated before the end of the project? If so…MODIFY!

4. Will your child be able to do a good job and feel as though he or she was able to do his or her best? If the child is given little time to accomplish a new skill or understand new information, it only breeds frustration, stress and a lack of motivation for the next time. Keep in mind how you feel when you are rushed and know the job you are doing is not going to be given the chance to be up to the standard that you would like. Your child can feel the same way with his or her work in the classroom. Time limits are necessary for those children that tend to take a long time with everything, but consider whether it is giving your child a fair chance to engage in a positive learning experience with the amount of time the curriculum has allotted. If not…MODIFY!

V. Know what you and your child are capable of: This brings FREEDOM TO MODIFY.

A. You know your child better than anyone else – if the curriculum is not pushing them enough – and you know they are capable of more – it’s time to modify!

B. If you know the curriculum is demanding too much of your child because they spend all day in home school, work on things 2-4 hours after school, and still cannot accomplish what the curriculum is expecting. It’s time to modify!

C. Professional teachers do not always finish the curriculum all the time – they modify and sometimes that means they just don’t finish everything. They are constantly changing and working with curriculum to make it more appealing to the students and a stronger learning experience based upon the learning styles they have in the classroom. You are the teacher and you have freedom to change the book!

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Change preferences for sending forms

How to customize emails when sending invoices in Quickbooks 2007.

I don’t know why it’s so difficult to find instructions to customize emails generated by Quickbooks when you send invoices to your client?  Perhaps there are too many companies trying to create addon’s that you shouldn’t have to pay for.

I tried the Intuit website’s help and searching their knowledge base was frustrating.  Eventually I did find it barried in some pages of badly indexed data.

Here is the link on Intuit’s site:

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/pages/inproducthelp/core/qb2k8/contentpackage/core/email/nf_prefsendforms.html

Here is my 22 word summary of the 6 page instructions on Quickbooks’ website:

1. From the top menu: Select Edit–>Preferences
2. Scroll down to Send Form on the left
3. Select Company Preferences
4. Customize the Form. Done.

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Astra Zeneca does fundamental research to develop new drugs; Halifax Bank designs new types of accounts; Microsoft designs completely new software. These companies look for the high profits that come from new products, but they have to bear the cost of research and development.

These companies follow a product for its entire life cycle. But most organizations do not start with basic research to develop entirely new products – neither do they continue making a product through its entire life. They find existing products that fit into their range, and modify these to create their own ‘new’ product.

Organizations generally start supplying a product that is already some way through its life cycle. The time when they start, and later stop, making a product defines their entry and exit strategy. The best entry and exit strategy depends on your expertise and objectives. Your organization might be:

• Research driven these are good at research, design and development, but they lack the resources and production skills to manage a growing  demand. They work in the introduction stage, and leave before the growth stage.
• New product exploiters. These look for research that has commercial potential and then exploit it during the growth stage. They use strong marketing and process design to get the high prices available during growth, and then exit when profit margins begin to fall.
• Cost reducers. These design very efficient operations, so they enter the market at the mature stage and produce large quantities efficiently enough to compete with organizations already in the market. They exit when sales fall too low to maintain high production levels.

My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, Lectures, Line of Sight

Structural changes in society often influence national and enterprise productivity independently of enterprise management. However, in the long term this interaction is two-way. Just as structural changes affect productivity, productivity changes also modify structure. Such changes are not only the result, but also a cause, of economic and social development.

Understanding these changes helps improve government policy, makes enterprise planning more realistic and purpose-oriented and helps develop the economic and social infrastructure. The most important structural changes are economic, and social and demographic.

My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, Lectures, Line of Sight

In SQL Server 2000, you can easily rename your database running sp_renamedb. The syntax from BOL as follows:

sp_renamedb [ @dbname = ] ‘old_name’ , [ @newname = ] ‘new_name’

In SQL Server 2005, however, this has changed. You will need to use ALTER DATABASE MODIFY NAME instead.

ALTER DATABASE database_name
MODIFY NAME = new_database_name

Although the database name has changed, you probably realise that the logical and physical database filename are still the same! What it means is if you create another database with the old name at the same server with the same filename, you will get an error.

My favourite way to deal with it is to detach and attach the database.

– execute the sp to detach a database
exec sp_detach_db ‘TestDB’,'true’

– rename the physical file to whatever you want

– execute attach database and specify filenames.
EXEC sp_attach_db @dbname = ‘TestDB’,
@filename1 = ‘C:\SQLData\TestDB.MDF’,
@filename2 = ‘C:\SQLLog\TestDB_Log.LDF’

I realise that some people have a better way of doing this. If so, you’re welcome to share your thought!