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Altering column name

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sital
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89 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-14 : 01:35:17

Hi all,

I have created the following table :

create table LogSummary
(
LogSummary_Category varchar(30),
LogSum_Count int
)

Now, I want to alter the column name LogSummary_Category and change the name to LogSum_Category.

I am using the following alter statement:

alter table LogSummary modify 'LogSummary_Category' 'LogSum_Category' varchar(30)

But the above statement results in the following error can anybody let me know what is the error?

Error :
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near 'LogSummary_Category'.

Please help me out to change the column name.

Thanks in advance

madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-14 : 02:01:34

Read about sp_rename in sql server help file

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

raky
Aged Yak Warrior

767 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-14 : 02:12:36

EXEC SP_RENAME 'LogSummary.LogSummary_Category','LogSum_Category','Column'

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