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forrestgump
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Posted - 02/05/2013 :  06:21:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi there,

I was wandering if there is a way of altering a view and adding a column. I have the following code and column which I wish to add.

CASE WHEN [UKUS] IS NOT NULL THEN [UKUS] ELSE [MoW] END AS OfferMade

I have tried the following code but to no avail.

ALTER VIEW Q1_GPO_Dataset
ADD OfferMade
CASE WHEN [UKUS] IS NOT NULL THEN [UKUS] ELSE [MoW] END AS OfferMade

webfred
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Posted - 02/05/2013 :  06:55:18  Show Profile  Visit webfred's Homepage  Reply with Quote
ALTER VIEW is to use like CREATE VIEW. The difference is that the view does already exists. Read up in BOL.

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forrestgump
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Posted - 02/05/2013 :  07:37:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I ended up just entering the view and then adding the code. Is this good practice? or should I really be using a different method?

Regards,

Forrest
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James K
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Posted - 02/05/2013 :  07:43:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Usually what I do is to right-click on the view name in SSMS object explorer, select Script View As -> Alter To -> New Query Editor Window. Once the window comes up, make the changes you want and execute.

By "entering the view" did you mean that you used the designer (right-click and then select the menu "Design")? If that is the case, that is just as good.
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forrestgump
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Posted - 02/05/2013 :  07:49:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi James K,

Yes I did reply using design. Thanks for your reply once again. And thak you webfred as well.

Regards,

Forrest
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James K
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Posted - 02/05/2013 :  10:14:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You are welcome Forrest - Glad to help.
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