October 11, 2007 at 1:51 pm
when i use SQL query analyzer to alter the column ALTER TABLE MyTable ALTER textCOLUMN MyColumn VARCHAR(20).I get the error Server: Msg 4928, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot alter column 'productdescription' because it is 'text'.
But on the other side in Enterprise Mgr it allow me to change .can anybody help .Thanks
Munish
October 11, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Unfortunatly in SQL 2000 you can not convert from text directly. What enterprise manager is doing behind the sceens is creating a temp table, loading it with the data from the orriginal table, droping the old table and renaming the temp table.
In SQL 2005 the alter column works fine.
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October 11, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for your help
Munish
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