Hi,
I'm trying to run the ALTER TABLE command using a dynamic string for the
table, like so:
DECLARE @TableName CHAR
SET @TableName = 'Customers'
ALTER TABLE @TableName
ADD ...blah
Is this possible? We know this works:
ALTER TABLE Customers ADD ...blah
It looks like I need a way to convert the CHAR value to a literal or perhaps
even a table ID?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Hello everyone,
I just started learning sql and I came across a slight problem.
Assume I have a customer table composed of the following fields:
Customer_Number,Sname,Street,City,Postcode,credit_lim,balance.
What I want to do is to drop the Street,city,and postcode fields and add the following: fax,email,and phone.
Is it possible to use the following command:
Alter table customer
Drop column street,city,postcode
Or should I do as following:
Alter table customer
Drop column street
Alter table customer
Drop column city
Alter table customer
Drop column postcode
And the same goes to adding the phone,fax,and email field.
Thank You.
NB: I need to use the Alter command and nothing else
Hi people,I?m trying to alter a integer field to a decimal(12,4) field in MSACCESS 2K.Example:table : item_nota_fiscal_forn_setor_publicofield : qtd_mercadoria integer NOT NULLALTER TABLE item_nota_fiscal_forn_setor_publicoALTER COLUMN qtd_mercadoria decimal(12,4) NOT NULLBut, It doesn't work. A sintax error rises.I need to change that field in a Visual Basic aplication, dinamically.How can I do it? How can I create a decimal(12,4) field via script in MSACCESS?Thanks,Euler Almeida--Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
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Dear all
I need to add new column in table TranPay , I use ALTER command on PDA on Button Click
Dim SqlStm = "ALTER TABLE TranPay ALTER COLUMN TranKey IDENTITY (1, 1)"
Dim Dcmd As SqlCeCommand = New SqlCeCommand
Dcmd.Connection = Conn
Dcmd.CommandText = SqlStm
Dcmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
But cannot create new Field , Help me please
Brg ,
Tingnong
ALTER TABLE customers
add column active_flg int(1)
but i got error.
quote:Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'column'.
what should i do?
ps. thanks for warning... i won't edit the post after i got the answer anymore.
I'm trying to add a column trough command "ALTER" and I've tried in many different ways.
Here is the result of statement..
Is there any way to extend the Alter Procedure command or fire somekind of event when it is executed in SQL Server 2005?
Thanks,
David
Hi all, I am trying to do a very basic ALTER Command and am trying to change its DEFAULT value. Code below is what I currently have:
Code Snippet
ALTER TABLE Table_1
ALTER COLUMN TEST VARCHAR(1000) NULL DEFAULT 2
Thanks, Onam.
*UPDATE* I found this code but are there alternative methods? Additionally, if I was to update its DEFAULT value again how would I go about doing that? Do I first have to remove the CONSTRAINT and then run the command?
Code Snippet
ALTER TABLE Table_1 ADD CONSTRAINT DF_Albumns_Comment DEFAULT 2 FOR TEST
Running this query in DR server to start SQL mirroring but encountered an error below.
Query:
use master
go
alter database test set partner= N'TCP://HOSTNAME.DOMAIN.GROUP.INTRANET:5023'
go
Error:
Msg 1452, Level 16, State 6, Line 2
The partner server instance name must be distinct from the server instance that manages the database. The ALTER DATABASE SET PARTNER command failed.
I used the code below to move the Model database and Model log file to new SAN drive locations.
After running the commands I stopped the SQL server and moved the physical files to the correct location.
Now I am unable to start SQL server, I get error 17204 Could not open file:Access is denied
I think the problem maybe that for FILENAME new_path I put "J:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData"
but did not include model.mdf in the file path.
How do I correct the path now that SQL service won't start?
I have included the log file below.
ALTER DATABASE database_name MODIFY FILE ( NAME = logical_name , FILENAME = 'new_path/os_file_name' )
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3042.00 (X64)
Feb 10 2007 00:59:02
Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation
Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server (c) 2005 Microsoft Corporation.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server All rights reserved.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server Server process ID is 3264.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server Authentication mode is MIXED.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server Logging SQL Server messages in file 'D:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLLOGERRORLOG'.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server This instance of SQL Server last reported using a process ID of 2648 at 9/11/2007 1:10:02 PM (local) 9/11/2007 8:10:02 PM (UTC). This is an informational message only; no user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server Registry startup parameters:
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server -d D:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLDATAmaster.mdf
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server -e D:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLLOGERRORLOG
2007-09-11 13:19:31.82 Server -l D:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLDATAmastlog.ldf
2007-09-11 13:19:31.84 Server SQL Server is starting at normal priority base (=7). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.84 Server Detected 4 CPUs. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.96 Server Using dynamic lock allocation. Initial allocation of 2500 Lock blocks and 5000 Lock Owner blocks per node. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:31.98 Server Attempting to initialize Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.00 Server Attempting to recover in-doubt distributed transactions involving Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.00 Server Database mirroring has been enabled on this instance of SQL Server.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.00 spid5s Starting up database 'master'.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.09 spid5s SQL Trace ID 1 was started by login "sa".
2007-09-11 13:19:32.10 spid5s Starting up database 'mssqlsystemresource'.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.10 spid5s The resource database build version is 9.00.3042. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid5s Server name is 'SS02'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Starting up database 'model'.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s FCB:pen: Operating system error 5(Access is denied.) occurred while creating or opening file 'J:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s FCB:pen failed: Could not open file J:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData for file number 1. OS error: 5(Access is denied.).
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 101.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Unable to open the physical file "J:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData". Operating system error 5: "5(Access is denied.)".
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s FCB:pen: Operating system error 5(Access is denied.) occurred while creating or opening file 'I:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s FCB:pen failed: Could not open file I:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData for file number 2. OS error: 5(Access is denied.).
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 101.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Unable to open the physical file "I:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData". Operating system error 5: "5(Access is denied.)".
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s File activation failure. The physical file name "I:SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData" may be incorrect.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Error: 945, Severity: 14, State: 2.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Database 'model' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server errorlog for details.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s Could not create tempdb. You may not have enough disk space available. Free additional disk space by deleting other files on the tempdb drive and then restart SQL Server. Check for additional errors in the event log that may indicate why the tempdb files could not be initialized.
2007-09-11 13:19:32.26 spid9s SQL Trace was stopped due to server shutdown. Trace ID = '1'. This is an informational message only; no user action is required.
On a 2008r2 server, I ran the frag utility against master and msdb and noticed they were severely fragmented.
Is it ok to defrag them using the standard Alter Index command?
Is it possible to use a variable to specify the filegroup in the ALTER/CREATE PARTITION SCHEME command?
I want the partition scheme to use the default filegroup for ALTER and CREATE PARTITION SCHEME. At the time the script is created, I don't know the default filegroup in the database.
My code:
declare @fileGroupName VARCHAR(50) = (select top 1 name from
sys.filegroups where is_default = 1)
ALTER PARTITION SCHEME MyScheme NEXT USED @fileGroupName
Is failing:
Incorrect syntax near '@fileGroupName'.
Q: Is it possible to use a variable for the filegroup in the ALTER/CREATE commands? Is so, what is the correct syntax?
Q: If using a variable is not possible, is there another way to specify the default filegroup?
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my code:
Alter table customers alter column age
Hi guys,
If I have a temporary table called #CTE
With the columns
[Account]
[Name]
[RowID Table Level]
[RowID Data Level]
and I need to change the column type for the columns:
[RowID Table Level]
[RowID Data Level]
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What will be the right syntax using SQL SERVER 2000?
I am trying to solve the question in the link below:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2093921&SiteID=1
Thanks in advance,
Aldo.
I have tried the code below, but getting syntax error...
ALTER TABLE #CTE
ALTER COLUMN
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I have also tried:
ALTER TABLE #CTE
MODIFY
[RowID Table Level] INT IDENTITY(1,1),
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************************************************** ******
Contract table DDL is
create table contract(
contractNum int identity(1,1) primary key,
contractDate smalldatetime not null,
tuition money not null,
studentId char(4) not null foreign key references student (studentId),
contactId int not null foreign key references contact (contactId)
);
In SQL Server 2005,here are two tables, created by the following SQL Statements:
CREATE TABLE student(
ID CHAR(6) PRIMARY KEY,
NAME VARCHAR(10),
AGE INT
);
CREATE TABLE score(
ID CHAR(6) PRIMARY KEY,
SCORE INT,
FOREIGN KEY(ID) REFERENCES student(ID)
);
For the length of Column ID is not enough, So I want to alter its length.The alter statement is:
ALTER TABLE student ALTER COLUMN ID CHAR(20)
For the table student is referenced by table score, the alter statement can not alter the column of the table student, and the SQL Server DBMS give the errors.
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AS
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Hi,
is it possible to override the system when adjusting
columns. i.e. a system override setting.
For instance if I've got a column that is indexed and I
want to adjust it from varchar(50) to varchar(51) it lets
me. But if I then try and adjust the column to varchar
(49) I get the error below:
Server: Msg 5074, Level 16, State 8, Line 1
The index 'LastName' is dependent on column 'lastname'.
Server: Msg 4922, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN lastname failed because one or
more objects access this column.
I asked this question on another Forum and was told I had to drop the index first. Just thought I'd ask for a second opinion.
Thanks for the help.
Steve
Hi to all!
I have a silly problem, but I'm not able to solve it!
I know how to add a field in a table via Enterprise manager and I know also via ALTER TABLE command.
...But the problem is: I want to add a field NOT in the last position, but on the middle (for istance)
So, this is possible via Enterprise Manager but with the ALTER TABLE command? How can I add a field without put it in the last position?
...Thanks a lot!
Sergio
p.s.: Sorry for my poor english..I hope you understand my question!
hello,
i am trying to add a column to every table in a database, if it (doesn't already exist), with the following code:
declare @name varchar(50)
declare c cursor for select name from sys.tables
open c
fetch next from c into @name
while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
begin
if( (select count(*) from sys.columns
WHERE object_id IN (SELECT object_id FROM sys.tables WHERE name = @name )
and name='ins_id') = 0 )
begin
alter table @name add ins_id int
end
fetch next from c into @name
end
close c
deallocate c
and when i run the script i get the error message
Incorrect syntax near '@name'.
reffering to the alter table statement
So, my question is, how can i actually perform the alter table in this case?
thank you
Pramod writes "I want to change the primary key field of my database to Identity seed. the table is with data. data should be secured
this is the structure
'=================================
CREATE TABLE [tblStock] (
[StockId] [numeric](18, 0) NOT NULL ,
[ItemID] [numeric](18, 0) NULL ,
[Batch] [varchar] (50) NULL ,
[Qty] [float] NULL ,
[Prate] [float] NULL ,
[SRate] [float] NULL ,
[Mrp] [float] NULL ,
[PTR] [float] NULL ,
[batchid] [numeric](18, 0) NULL ,
[BatchCode] [varchar] (50) NULL ,
CONSTRAINT [PK_tblStock] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED
(
[StockId]
) ON [PRIMARY] ,
CONSTRAINT [IX_tblStock] UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED
(
[ItemID],
[Batch],
[Prate]
) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
===================================
How do i use alter table with identity seed
ALTER TABLE tblStock alter column StockID Numeric IDENTITY (1, 1)
how the p[rimary key affects
Please help me"
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ALTER TABLE of_info_grp
RENAME TO stp_info_grp_map
It is giving an error like this
Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'TO'.
Some one help on this
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