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 Alteriing a column length on an msde database?

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Gopher
Yak Posting Veteran

83 Posts
Posted - 2007-04-03 : 10:53:14
Hi all

I have a problem with a user who had a sql db on a laptop, basically they have a column(street) in a table(houses) which needs its length changing from Varchar(10) to a varchar(15).

Does anyone know how to do this via a script of some kind, the msde DB does not have query analyser but can you do it via the comand prompt?

Cheers in advance!

Gopher

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts
Posted - 2007-04-03 : 10:55:46
use isql to do it


alter table houses alter column street varchar(15)


KH
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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts
Posted - 2007-04-03 : 12:46:38
cross post


http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=81590

And I like Nigel's Article about why ALTER is not a good idea

http://www.mindsdoor.net/SQLAdmin/AlterTableProblems.html

Brett

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