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webweaver
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Posted - 2007-06-13 : 16:56:54
I have a table and I need to add a field to a specific spot in the table between to records. Since someone else has created stored procedures that need this field to be in spot 7 of 11 in the table.

Is there an easy way to do this through a script? This change has to go out to many customers.

Any help would be great, thanks.

spirit1
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11752 Posts

Posted - 2007-06-13 : 16:58:25
order of columns is irrelevant.
you can just as easily add it to the end.

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jsmith8858
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Posted - 2007-06-13 : 21:50:34
>> Since someone else has created stored procedures that need this field to be in spot 7 of 11 in the table.

Yikes! If someone is writing stored procedures that rely on column positions to work (i.e., INSERT statements without explicitly specifying columns) then THAT is what you need to fix, not your database schema ! Never "fix" the part that is not broken so that the broken part works!

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