Rename SharePoint 2010 Central Admin database

How to rename SharePoint 2010 Central Admin Database GUID (Globally Unique Identifier)?
Is there a easy way to rename the Central Administration Content Database?

In this post you can find all the steps you needed to rename SharePoint 2010 Central Admin database with GUID to a friendly name

1. Login into SQL Server using Management Studio
2. Right click on the SharePoint 2010 Central Admin Database with GUID | Click on Rename

3. Copy the database name and past it into a notepad. Click anywhere outside of the database to exit edit mode without changing the name

4. Right click on SharePoint 2010 AdminContent database which you want to rename and take a backup

5. Now restore your database with new friendly name. Call it SharePoint_AdminContent_DB

Now I have SharePoint AdminContent database with out GUID

6. Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration | Application Management | Manage Content Database

7. Use this page to manage content databases for this web application. Click a content database name to change its properties.
Click on the database to manage it’s settings

8. Specify database connection settings for this content database. Use the Database status options to control whether or not new Site Collections can be created in the database. When the database status is set to Ready, the database is available for hosting new Site Collections. When the database status is set to Offline, no new Site Collections can be created.

Click on the dropdown and make it OFFLINE

9. Do not remove the database, just click OK to make it OFFLINE

10. Open command prompt and run the stsadm command
cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\14\BIN\

11. Delete the original database which contain GUID by running this command.

stsadm -o deletecontentdb -url http://CentralAdminURL -databasename SharePoint_AdminContent_ –databaseserver YourSqlServer

sample Script:
stsadm -o deletecontentdb -url http://mysp:2012 -databasename SharePoint_AdminContent_02de613c-ae5b-4617-9d88-0b53a3f6610f -databaseserver mysp

12. Now add the new Admin Content database with out the GUID using the following command

stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http:// CentralAdminURL:portnumber -databasename SharePoint_AdminContent_DB -databaseserver YourSQLServer

sample Script:
stsadm -o addcontentdb -url

http://mysp:2012 -databasename SharePoint_AdminContent_DB -databaseserver mysp

New Admin Content Database is added to with out GUID

13. Let’s open SharePoint 2010 central administration and see what happens. Looks like SharePoint 2010 central administration is running from a new database