Changing Order of columns in a table

Is there any way to change the order (position) of columns of a table ,
without the need of dropping and recreating the table itself !?
I found the 'colid' field of the 'syscolumn' system table: by changing the
colid of each column I got the desired result, unfortunately if I have to
create indexes ih the above columns later on I get the error
Location: record.cpp: 759
Expression: pbind-> fcheckfornull ()
spID: errore 56 o 61
process ID 2976 o 2452
ID code -2147467259
as a side effect.
Moreover , I saw that in the 'syscolumns' system table , the change in the
'colid' field was an insert rather than an update...
Thanks,
Massimo.If you monkey around with the data in the sys... tables you can screw up
your database permanently.
I think you should really drop the table and re-create it.
You could also create a view with the columns in the required order.
"news" <massimo.facchi@.getronics.com> wrote in message
news:eqacvBkjDHA.2656@.TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Is there any way to change the order (position) of columns of a table ,
> without the need of dropping and recreating the table itself !?
> I found the 'colid' field of the 'syscolumn' system table: by changing the
> colid of each column I got the desired result, unfortunately if I have to
> create indexes ih the above columns later on I get the error
> Location: record.cpp: 759
> Expression: pbind-> fcheckfornull ()
> spID: errore 56 o 61
> process ID 2976 o 2452
> ID code -2147467259
> as a side effect.
>
> Moreover , I saw that in the 'syscolumns' system table , the change in the
> 'colid' field was an insert rather than an update...
> Thanks,
>
> Massimo.
>
>
>|||I used to worry about the order of columns when I first started using sql,
but I quickly found I was wasting my time... As the previous poster said,
messing with system tables is not a good way to go... The order of the
columns physically in the record is different than the order you put in the
create table...
Unless you have some huge, overriding reason don't worry about column
order... Otherwise, drop and re-create the table.
--
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Computer Education Services Corporation (CESC), Charlotte, NC
www.computeredservices.com
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"news" <massimo.facchi@.getronics.com> wrote in message
news:eqacvBkjDHA.2656@.TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Is there any way to change the order (position) of columns of a table ,
> without the need of dropping and recreating the table itself !?
> I found the 'colid' field of the 'syscolumn' system table: by changing the
> colid of each column I got the desired result, unfortunately if I have to
> create indexes ih the above columns later on I get the error
> Location: record.cpp: 759
> Expression: pbind-> fcheckfornull ()
> spID: errore 56 o 61
> process ID 2976 o 2452
> ID code -2147467259
> as a side effect.
>
> Moreover , I saw that in the 'syscolumns' system table , the change in the
> 'colid' field was an insert rather than an update...
> Thanks,
>
> Massimo.
>
>
>