Showing posts with label tablefield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tablefield. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2012

changing data types

hi!
I'd like to change the datatype of one tablefield from varchar to text.
Is this possible when the table already is populated, or will there be trouble?
obscurrDepending the version you're using.

In any way

exec sp_rename MyTable, MyOldTable
select Col1, Col2, convert(TEXT, ColVarchar) ColVarchar
into MyTable
from MyOldTable
drop table MyOldTable|||I'm using SQL Server version 7.0