Backup your databases, uninstall SQL Server, install it properly, then
restore your databases. There is no sp_rename_instance.



"Mike" <mikenospam@yahoo.es> wrote in message
news:691977F7-8CB6-4107-B71E-6584B15311D4@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I installed sql05 on a new box and I don't like the name I chose for the
> instance.
> How do I change it?
> TIA,
> Mike
>