Change Data Type In Many Tables In One Go
May 14, 2008
Hi.
I have tables (they are empty and there are no constraints) with columns typed as varchar. In a database I want to change the type of all the varchar columns in all the tables from varchar to nvarchar. What's the best way to do it? Can you suggest code?
I know that to get all the relevant columns I would issue a query like this
select *
from information_schema.columns
where data_type = 'varchar'
Then I would use a cursor... And that's exactly what I would not like to do. Is there any other way?
Thanx.
Darek
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Jun 23, 2005
I'm trying to compare 2 field in 2 different databases and one is varchar and one is numeric. Is there anyway I can tell SQL to treat the one thats numeric as varchar or convert numeric to varchar for the comparison string... I'm trying to run the following in query anaylzer:update crcwebauth.dbo.deviationmaster set ldate = (select max(qvdate) from crcbrio.dbo.invoice_tbl where dnumber = qvqote)It gives me error:Server: Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 1Error converting data type varchar to numeric.The DNumber field is numeric and the qvqote is a char field...
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Oct 6, 2005
I received a db2 data file that I converted to MS-Access. From Access Iran the upsize wizard to put the tabel in SQL. It put the table in okbut all the data types are nvarchar. I have a couple of the fields thatare cureny and some that are numeric.I need to change the data types from nvarchar to numeric type fields. Iam new to SQL so I do not know all the commands. How do I change thedata type?Michael Charney*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
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Aug 20, 2007
How do I programatically change a column (say username) in a table (say tblusers) from varchar(25) to varchar(100)I am looking for something likealter tblusers set username as varchar(100) I know the above statement in nonsensical but it conveys the idea.
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Jul 23, 2005
I'm doing a data conversion project, moving data from one SQL app toanother.I'm using INSERT INTO with Select and have the syntax correct. But whenexecuting the script I get:Server: Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 1Error converting data type varchar to float.Is it possible to change the data type during the INSERT INTO statement?Thanks
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Jul 20, 2005
I've created a SQL View in SQL 2000 using a table that has columnsdefined as Numeric data type. In the view, I am grouping and summing.When I link the view via ODBC to Access, all of the data types arechanged to text. If I link the original table which the views arecreated from to Access, the data types are correct. So this problemobviously happens when I change the view to Group. Is there a wayaround this? I want the data types to be correct in Access when Ilink to the views.thanks,jim
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Oct 3, 2007
Is there anyway to change the data type of a variable while in an expression?
My problem is I am trying to compare a variable w/ a string data type to a variable w/ an object data type. I would change the data type of the variable from object to string but if I do that my sql task fails when it tries to write a value to that variable. The variable w/ the object data type is the result of an openquery sql stmnt. So I guess there are two ways around my problem.
1. Change data type of variable while in an expression..ie flow constriant
or
2. Change data type of vraiable from object to string and still get the openquery result to work.
Any help???
Thanks !!
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Sep 29, 2007
I have a table say Friend which has a column "IsSingle VARCHAR(10)" and this column has values like yes or No
Now I want to change type of column IsSingle from VARCHAR to BIT, if I try to do it manaually SQL throws error that cannot convert yes to bit etc.
I know that we can write a script to do this task but i dont know how ?
Any pointers,links, suggestions will help me to start with.
Thanks for your help.
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Apr 6, 2004
Hi everyone,
I’ve got a small question: Is it possible to change the Column_Name – Data Type from a SQL table with a query?
I want to do this with a query.
The Data Type ‘ntext’ must be changed to ‘text’
Thanks in advance!
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Jun 13, 2007
Hello,
I have a SQL update statement that updates some user names, however, the user names exceed the length of the data type. Currently, for the column username the data type is set to nvarchar (8).
How can I change that to nvarchar(10) in a SQL Update statement?
Thanks in advance.
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Dec 11, 2007
Hi All,
I am using SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition fully patched. Database is in Simple Recovery mode.
I need to change a column's data type from "int(4)" to "smallint(2)". I know for sure that there will be no data (precision) lost, because I know the possible values that this column could have.
My problem is that the table I am dealing with has 600,000,000 records in it. I dropped all indexes before I tried to alter the table. But still it is taking forever and filling up my 280GB disk with transaction log file.
I know that in Oracle, if I want I can turn off logging and do these kind of modifications relatively faster.
I was wondering if there is a way of disabling logging before running this alter command.
What is the best practice to handle a situation of this sort?
I appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance,
Sinan Topuz
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Nov 17, 2015
Ilve install sql server 2012 in my pc and i want to change datetime default format. How can i do this and please i dont want to take the result from select convert() or select cast or something like this. I ve want to take the format i want writing query select datecolumn from table.Â
Now the format i have is:Â 2015-11-16 09:04:00.000
And i want this format: 16.11.2015 09:04:00
Is any way to convert automaticaly by select only column? or can i change at all once? or must write function to when i select the column can change automatic ? or another thing, i ve see in column properties something like formula. In computed column specification in formula i wrote this:Â
((CONVERT([varchar](10),getdate(),(104))+' ')+CONVERT([varchar](10),getdate(),(108)))
And I take the format i want automaticaly but i get the current date for all rows and i cant edit or insert that column anymore. So, how to change the format of date time but no from select query.
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Sep 25, 2015
I want change all field in database to new datatype.I want change data from Small Integer to Integer but there are the relation in each table.
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Jul 7, 2004
Hi
I am new to Sql server and had just finished the MErge Replication setup on one of the PRoduction server. Today I got the request to change one of the Datatype of one the Published Article. Please help as what are the correct step to make it happen. Is there any production downtime required and if yes , then how much.
Thanks in Advance
Sanjay
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Jan 11, 2006
Hi
I have Try to Create Stored Procedure in C# with the following structure
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlProcedure]
public static void sp_AddImage(Guid ImageID, string ImageFileName, byte[] Image)
{
}
But when I try to deploy that SP to SQL Server Express , The SP Parameters become in the following Stature
@ImageID uniqueidentifier
@ImageFileName nvarchar(4000)
@Image varbinary(8000)
But I don€™t want that Data types .. I want it to be in the following format
@ImageID uniqueidentifier
@ImageFileName nText
@Image Image
How Can I Control the data type for each parameter ??
Or
How Can I Change the data type of the parameter for the Deployed Stored Procedure ??
Or
How Can I defined the new Data type ??
Or
What's the solution to this problem ??
Note : I get Error when I try to use Alert Statement to change the parameter Data type for the SP
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_AddImage]
@ImageID [uniqueidentifier],
@ImageFileName nText,
@Image Image
WITH EXECUTE AS CALLER
AS
EXTERNAL NAME [DatabaseAndImages].[StoredProcedures].[sp_AddImage]
GO
And thanks with my best regarding
Fraas
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Dec 10, 2014
I need to update a large table, about 55 million rows, without filling the transaction log, in the shortest time as possible. The goal is to alter the table and change the data type for Text column from VARCHAR(7900) to NVARCHAR(MAX).
Since I cannot do it with an ALTER TABLE statement (it would fill up the transaction log) I'm thinking to:
- rename column Text in Text_OLD
- add Text column of type NVARCHAR(MAX)
- copy values in batches from Text_OLD to Text
The table is defined like:
create table DATATEXT(
rID INTEGER NOT NULL,
sID INTEGER NOT NULL,
pID INTEGER NOT NULL,
cID INTEGER NOT NULL,
err TINYINT NOT NULL,
[Code] ....
I've thought about a stored procedure doing this but how to copy values in batch from Text_OLD to Text.
The code I would start with (doing just this part) is the following, but maybe there are more efficient ways to do it, or at least there's a better way to select @startSeq in the WHILE loop (avoiding to select a bunch of 100000 sequences and later selecting the max).
declare @startSeq timestamp
declare @lastSeq timestamp
select @lastSeq = MAX(sequence) from [DATATEXT] where [Text] is null
select @startSeq = MIN(Sequence) FROM [DATATEXT] where [Text]is null
BEGIN TRANSACTION T1
WHILE @startSeq < @lastSeq
[Code] ....
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Jun 22, 2014
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Aug 21, 2015
I'm working on archiving data from some tables. I've duplicated the data structure, with the exception of not including the IDENTITY specifier on INT columns, so that the archive table will keep the value that was generated in the original table. This is all going well, until I tried to copy the data over where the column is specified as a timestamp data type. I've looked this up and found a couple of things. First, documentation for SQL 2000 says,
Timestamp is a data type that exposes automatically generated binary numbers, which are guaranteed to be unique within a database. Timestamp is used typically as a mechanism for version-stamping table rows. The storage size is 8 bytes.
And then documentation for the soon to be released SQL 2016 on the rowversion data type says,
The timestamp syntax is deprecated. This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.
and
Is a data type that exposes automatically generated, unique binary numbers within a database. rowversion is generally used as a mechanism for version-stamping table rows. The storage size is 8 bytes. The rowversion data type is just an incrementing number and does not preserve a date or a time.
OK, I've read the descriptions, but I don't get it. Why have a timestamp/rowversion data type?
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Sep 17, 2005
I would like to change column data in all tables in a single database at once.
For instance, i have many tables in a database, and about 30% of the tables has the column "orderplace".
And all the data in orderplace (every tables in the database) are "houston". instead of going to each table and
"update table set orderplace = 'dallas' " .... is there anyway that i could run a sql statement and it will update all the tables in database that has the orderplace column to "orderplace = 'dallas' " ?
any ideas ? thanks.
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Jul 17, 2003
I need to alter datatypes from
numeric(18,0) to 'int' type across all the tables in the database of about 200 tables. Nearly 200 PK/FKs will be affected with this change..How can I do this with a script? Can anyone help witha script which drops all the constraints/indexs etc and then alters the datatype before re-creating the constraints/indexs..?
P.s. No rounding problem is expected as data is already in whole numbers.
Thanks,
Di.
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Oct 29, 2015
We have enabled Change Data Capture for auditing our table changes in SQL Server 2008. There is a request to NULL out a few columns (for all rows) in a couple CDC tables, due to compliance with a certification. Is there a compelling reason not to modify these tables and to leave the audit trail as-is?
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Nov 21, 2006
Hello.
i have a database with 300 tables. All the data types of the fields of my tables are custom. Ex. IFGint:int and stuff like that.
I want to know how can i through a stored procedure, change in batch mode all the fields of my tables. I don't want to modify by hand everytable. It's a lot of work and i think that maybe there might be a way for this programatically.
thanks in advance
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Oct 6, 2004
Hi folks,
Table:
a int,
b int,
c int,
d text
I need to change my AFTER - Trigger from this (example!):
select * into #ins from inserted
to something like
select *(without Text / nText / image -columns) into #ins from inserted.
So I tried to build a string like this: (using INFORMATIONSCHEMES)
select @sql = 'select a,b,c into #ins from inserted'
exec(@sql)
a,b,c are not of Text, nText or Image datatype.
After executing the trigger, I get an error, that inserted is unknown.
Does anyone know how to solve this ?
Thx.
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Jul 23, 2005
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Dec 14, 2005
After testing out the application i write on the local pc. I deploy it to the webserver to test it out. I get this error.
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The conversion of a char data type to a
datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.
Notes: all pages that have this error either has a repeater or datagrid which load data when page loading.
At first I thought the problem is with the date, but then I can see
that some other pages that has datagrid ( that has a date field) work
just fine.
anyone having this problem before?? hopefully you guys can help.
Thanks,
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Hi,
I can populate a dataTable with type double (C#) of say '1055.01' however when I save these to the CE3.5 database using a float(CE3.5) I lose the decimal portion. The 'offending' code is:
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this.mycourtsDataSet1.AcceptChanges();
this.court0TableAdapter1.Fill(this.mycourtsDataSet1.Court0);
This did not happen with VS2005/CE3.01.
I have tried changing all references to decimal (or money in CE3.5) without luck.
I'm beginning to think that string may be the way to go!!!!!!!
Can someone shed some light on my problem.
Thanks,
Later:
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Mar 7, 2007
We have some columns in a table where the date is stored as 19980101 (YYYYMMDD). The data type for this column is NUMBER(8) in Oracle.
I need to copy rows from Oracle to SQL Server using SSIS. I used the Data Conversion transformation editor to change it to DT_DATE, but the rows are not being inserted to the destination.
On Error, If I fail the component, then the error is :
There was an error with input column "ORDER_DATE_CONV" (1191) on input "OLE DB Destination Input" (29). The column status returned was: "Conversion failed because the data value overflowed the specified type.".
Regards
RH
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May 13, 2008
hello all .. I have a form that includes two textboxes (Date and Version) .. When I try to insert the record I get the following error message .. seems that something wrong with my coversion (Data type)"The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.The statement has been terminated."
in my SQL database I have the date feild as datetime and the version as nvarchar(max)
this is the code in the vb page .. Can you please tell me how to solve this problem?Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports system.web.configuration
Partial Class Admin_emag_insert
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Record_DateTextBox.Text = DateTime.Now
End Sub
Protected Sub clearButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles clearButton.Click
Me.VersionTextBox.Text = ""
End Sub
Protected Sub addButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles addButton.Click
Dim objConnection As SqlConnection
Dim objDataCommand As SqlCommand
Dim ConnectionString As String
Dim record_date As Date
Dim version As String
Dim emagSQL As String
'save form values in variables
record_date = Record_DateTextBox.Text
version = VersionTextBox.Text
ConnectionString = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("HRDBConnectionString").ConnectionString
'Create and open the connection
objConnection = New SqlConnection(ConnectionString)
objConnection.Open()
emagSQL = "Insert into E_Magazine (Record_Date, Version ) " & _
"values('" & record_date & "','" & version & "')"
'Create and execute the command
objDataCommand = New SqlCommand(emagSQL, objConnection)
objDataCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
objConnection.Close()
AddMessage.Text = "A new emagazine was added successfully"
Me.VersionTextBox.Text = ""
End Sub
End Class
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Hi,
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Oct 9, 2007
I have a field that is currently stored as the data type nvarchar(10), and all of the data in this field is in the format mm/dd/yyyy or NULL. I want to convert this field to the smalldatetime data type. Is this possible?
I've tried to use cast in the following way, (rsbirthday is the field name, panelists is the table), but to no avail.
SELECT rsbirthday CAST(rsbirthday AS smalldatetime)
FROM panelists
the error returned is "incorrect syntax near 'rsbirthday'.
I'm rather new to all things SQL, so I only have the vaguest idea of what I'm actually doing.
Thanks for the help!
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Hi all of you,
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