Changing Datatype Length
Jul 20, 2005
Hi all,
I need to change a varchar from 35 to 50. In the SQL Server books on
line it says that SQL Server actually creates a new table when you
change the length. I ran a test in a test database and it appears the
only thing that changes is the length. All the data remains in tact.
The table with the column I want to modify is very critical. Is there
any chance I would loose data if I change the length to a larger size? I
am making a back up of the table just in case. Thanks,
Kelly
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May 20, 2015
I have a field in a table
FormID nvarchar(6)
i want to change the length of the datatype to nvarchar(8).
what is the best way to do with out dropping the table?
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Feb 23, 2008
Hi,
I want to restrict varbinary column for not to store more that 2mb image file in the database. How can i do that.
Thanks in Advance!
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Aug 22, 2007
Hello guys!
I am looking for the best DataType that makes it possible to store strings of variable length (from 15 to 300 caracters, rarely longer).
Thanks a lot for any help !
Regards,
Fabianus
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Aug 11, 2004
Hello all, I'm using SQL Server 2000 and have about 250 stored procedures that use an EMPLID parameter or variable of type varchar with a length of 4. I need to change the length to 10 instead and would like to do so without having to open every sp for editing. Is there a way to do this through SQL Server 2000? Does anyone have a script to do this? Any help would be appreciated.
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Jan 6, 2004
Hi
I have two databases that are merged using replication, and I want to change the length of one of the fields. Can anyone think of a way of doing it that doesn't require dropping the whole publication and rebuilding it? Thanks Ed
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Dec 26, 2006
Hi Everyone,I have a question about dynamically changing the length of a varchar(n)field, in case the value I'm trying to insert is too big and will givea "truncated" error, but before the error is given! i.e. Is there somekind of a way to "test" the length of the field while Inserting thevalue into it, and to have it automatically increase its length to thelength of the value being inserted, in case the value is too big?I've been able to do this in a "primitive" way, simply by identifyingthe specific error number in case the value is being truncated, andthen increasing the length of the varchar(n) field by using the ALTERcommand, and then duplicating the insert statement, but is there astandard (shorter) way of doing this?Here is my code (I'm working in an ASP environment):<%var_txt = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345678789"sql = "Insert Into Table1 (text) Values ('" & var_txt & "')"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err = -2147217833 ThenResponse.Write "Error Recognized Successfully!<br /><br />"sql = "ALTER TABLE Table1 ALTER COLUMN text VARCHAR(" &Len(var_txt) &") NOT NULL"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err<>0 ThenResponse.Write "Error while trying to alter Column:<br/>" & err & "= " & err.description & "<br />"ElseResponse.Write "Column altered successfully to: " &Len(var_txt) &"<br />"sql = "Insert Into Table1 (text) Values ('" & var_txt &"')"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err<>0 ThenResponse.Write "<br />Error number 2:<br />" &err.description &"<br />"ElseResponse.Write "Now it was added successfully!HaHa!<br />"End IfEnd IfElseResponse.Write "Success."End If%>Thanks in advance!
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Jul 31, 2006
Can I increase the length of a varchar column of table involved in transactional replication without dropping and recreating publication/subscription?
Any help/short-cuts/undocumented features greatly appreciated.
Regards
Opal
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Nov 3, 2006
Hi,
I am trying to import data from Oracle RDB into SQL Server 2005 using SSIS. Created a ODBC data source to connect to Oracle and used DataReader Source component and ADO.net to connect to the ODBC data source.
Under the Component properties tab, the SQL Command looks something like this.
Select ID, ADDRESS, REVISED from ADDRESS
The data type for the source columns are Integer, Varchar(30) and DATE VMS.
Now when I look at the Input and Output properties window,
The External columns has the following data types.
ID - four-byte signed integer [DT_I4]
ADDRESS - Unicode string [DT_WSTR], length = 0
REVISED - database timestamp [DT_DBTIMESTAMP]
The Output columns has the following data types
ID - four-byte signed integer [DT_I4]
ADDRESS - Unicode string [DT_WSTR], length = 0
REVISED - database timestamp [DT_DBTIMESTAMP]
When I tried to change the length of the ADDRESS on the output column, I get the following error.
Error at Data Flow Task [DataReader Source [1]]: The data type of output columns on the component "DataReader Source" (1) cannot be changed.
Error at Data Flow Task [DataReader Source [1]]: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0xC020837D)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.DataReaderSourceAdapter.SetOutputColumnDataTypeProperties(Int32 iOutputID, Int32 iOutputColumnID, DataType eDataType, Int32 iLength, Int32 iPrecision, Int32 iScale, Int32 iCodePage)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.ManagedComponentHost.HostSetOutputColumnDataTypeProperties(IDTSManagedComponentWrapper90 wrapper, Int32 iOutputID, Int32 iOutputColumnID, DataType eDataType, Int32 iLength, Int32 iPrecision, Int32 iScale, Int32 iCodePage)
Is this the default length for the Unicode string type. I was not able to load the ADDRESS column as it gets truncated before I load it into destination. Even if I use Derived or Data Conversion transformation, the ADDRESS is getting truncated before it reaches this transformation.
Any thoughts.
Thanks,
SK
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Aug 9, 2007
Hi all,
I'm trying to get an understanding of a serious problem I have with a large DB in production. This is going to be obvious to someone (everyone probably) <bg>
I have a table which consists of numerous varchars and ints but also a Text type field. This table resides in a SQL 2000 Database. This DB currently has a data file size of 16Gb and a Transaction Log size of 17Gb. When I edit the table and increase the size of a Varchar field from 50 to 100 these files grow to more than double their size!
Why is this happening and how can I prevent this?
TIA
NozFx
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Feb 14, 2008
I have generated the package ! but it gives me an error at:
outputColumn.SetDataTypeProperties(dataType, length, precision, scale, targetColumn.CodePage);
private void ConfigureDataConversionComponent(Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper.IDTSComponentMetaData90 dataconversionComponent)
{
PipeLineWrapper.CManagedComponentWrapper managedOleInstance = managedOleInstanceDataConversionComponent;
// Get the derived's default input and virtual input.
PipeLineWrapper.IDTSInput90 input = dataconversionComponent.InputCollection[0];
PipeLineWrapper.IDTSVirtualInput90 vInput = input.GetVirtualInput();
// Iterate through the virtual input column collection.
foreach (PipeLineWrapper.IDTSVirtualInputColumn90 vColumn in vInput.VirtualInputColumnCollection)
{
managedOleInstance.SetUsageType(
input.ID, vInput, vColumn.LineageID, PipeLineWrapper.DTSUsageType.UT_READONLY);
}
// putting the truncation row disposition
dataconversionComponent.OutputCollection[0].TruncationRowDisposition =
PipeLineWrapper.DTSRowDisposition.RD_NotUsed;
// putting the error row disposition
dataconversionComponent.OutputCollection[0].ErrorRowDisposition =
PipeLineWrapper.DTSRowDisposition.RD_NotUsed;
// get the output column collection reference
PipeLineWrapper.IDTSOutput90 output = dataconversionComponent.OutputCollection[0];
foreach (PipeLineWrapper.IDTSInputColumn90 inColumn in
dataconversionComponent.InputCollection[0].InputColumnCollection)
{ // create the map
// get the target column from the mapping informations
PipeLineWrapper.IDTSOutputColumn90 outputColumn =
dataconversionComponent.OutputCollection[0].OutputColumnCollection.New();
outputColumn.Name = inColumn.Name;
Column targetColumn = GetTargetColumnInfo(inColumn.Name);
// find out the length of the column
int length = targetColumn.Length;
// get the precision of the target column
int precision = targetColumn.Precision;
// get the scale of the target column
int scale = targetColumn.Scale;
// get the SSSIS complaint datatype from the given mappings
Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper.DataType dataType = targetColumn.DataType;
// setting the data properties
outputColumn.SetDataTypeProperties(dataType, length, precision, scale, targetColumn.CodePage);
// putting the external metadata column id to zero
outputColumn.ExternalMetadataColumnID = 0;
outputColumn.ErrorRowDisposition = PipeLineWrapper.DTSRowDisposition.RD_RedirectRow;
outputColumn.TruncationRowDisposition = PipeLineWrapper.DTSRowDisposition.RD_RedirectRow;
PipeLineWrapper.IDTSCustomProperty90 property = outputColumn.CustomPropertyCollection.New();
property.Name = "SourceInputColumnLineageID";
property.Value = GetSourceColumnLineageID(targetColumn.Name);
property = outputColumn.CustomPropertyCollection.New();
property.Name = "FastParse";
property.Value = false;
// Now we are preserving the Lineage id into a list.
// you know, when later we will configure the dataflowcomponent of SQL destination
// then, we will find all the inputs (the input came from flat file and the inputs
// came from the derived columns output). And we need to distinguish among them.
// we will only consider those inputs into the data destination component, where the
// inputs are came from the out put of derived column component. which is actually here.
derivedLineageIdentifiers[outputColumn.LineageID] = outputColumn.Name;
}
}
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Dec 2, 2006
Hello I am having a table
table1
col1 (bit)
and i want to changethe col1 type for smallint
col1 (smallint)
true will be = 1
and false = 0
how can i do it ??
thank you
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Oct 27, 2003
Hi guys,
Is there any way or method to CHANGE the DATATYPE of a column in a published table being used for transactional replication (MSSQL 2000), WITHOUT DROPPING THE SUBSCRIPTION ????
Im stuck in this mess and do have the option to drop the subscription, alter the table, create the subscription and rerun the snapshot or to recreate it by Manual Synchronisation either.
Can anyone help? Has anyone been across this dilemma before and have troubleshooted the problem? If yes, help is much appreciated.
MY PROBLEM:
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'MyTable' is currently being published and has subscriptions to it. The PRIMARY KEY column 'id' has an Identity property as well. 'id' is of datatype smallint, however because of bad planning, i now need to change that datatype to an integer to support a larger range WITHOUT DROPPING SUBSCRIPTIONS.
I CANT DROP THE COLUMN EITHER AS IT IS BEING THE PRIMARY KEY COLUMN.
IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY I CAN DO TO ARCHIEVE MY GOAL? THANKYOU.
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Feb 28, 2002
Changing datatype in a table used for merge replication ?
I'm trying to change the data type on a column in a table that is used for a merge-replication with another (identical) DB.
I get this error:
Cannot alter the table '[Tablename]' because it is being published for replication.
I've tried to remove that specific table from the publication (Publication properties -> Articles tab) so I can change the data type and then put the table back into the publication, but I can't (probably because it's a MERGE rep.)
Any ideas ?
/CN
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Oct 15, 2015
I am trying to make the following update: All the columns are fine except for the 'name' column. datatype for 'name' column in the target table is varchar(30) and the datatype for 'name' in the sourcetable is varchar(40), I cannot change the datatype of the column 'name' to varchar(40) because I am told it may affect performance. what I want to do is just update the first 'name' column of the target table by the first 30 characters of the source table column 'name'
I am using the following query, is it possible to do it or are there any other ways I can update the column without changing the datatype?
MERGE INTO [S].[dbo].[AF_Copy] AS TargetTable
USING (SELECT source_code, name, addr1, city, zip FROM
[D].[D_TEST].[dbo].[SO_Copy]) AS SourceTable
ON ([TargetTable].[Code] = [SourceTable].[source_code])
[code]...
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Jul 20, 2005
I am trying to run the following query:ALTER TABLE dnb_profileALTER COLUMN [family update date] datetimeand I keep getting the following error:Server: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted inan out-of-range datetime value.The statement has been terminated.Can anyone tell me how I can do this successfully??Thanks,Connie SawyerFoley & LardnerJoin Bytes!
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Oct 16, 2007
Is there a way to strip off the time portion of a datetime datatype without changing the datatype?
I know I can convert it using CONVERT (NVARCHAR(10), dbo.tblPayments.PaymentDate, 101) but I need to keep it as a datetime datatype?
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Apr 11, 2005
Here is the issue. I have ReadOnly Access to a database. All of the Columns are set to NVARCHAR(1000) by default. I cannot change them. I want to load the DataSet into memory and change the DataType of the columns from NVARCHAR(1000) to INT(4). The data is in integer (i.e. 4,5,123) format (but stored as a string), but is coming across as strings. The charting software I am using won't implicitly convert these Strings to Int or Double. How can I change an entire column to Int?
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Jan 29, 2002
Usually all the user datatypes in our databases have the owner dbo.
One has a few that are owned by a user with dbo rights. I am trying to change them to dbo owner.
Sp_changeobjectowner gives 'object does not exist'
Any ideas
Jim
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Jul 13, 2004
Hi,
I need to change the datatype of a very large table from smallint to int...
What would be an ideal solution to get this done in least amount of time. May be I can try with ALTER but , I am not sure about the time it would take ...and the page splits etc..
pls help on the same!!
Thanks
Cheriyan.
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Jun 30, 2014
is there any way or a tool to identify if in procedure the Parameter length was declarated less than table Column length ..
I have a table
CREATE TABLE TEST001 (KeyName Varchar(100) ) a procedure
CREATE PROCEDURE SpFindNames ( @KeyName VARCHAR(40) )
AS
BEGIN
SELECT KeyName FROM TEST001
WHERE KeyName = @KeyName
END
KeyName = @KeyName
Here table Column with 100 char length "KeyName" was compared with SP parameter "@KeyName" with length 40 char ..
IS there any way to find out all such usage on the ALL Procedures in the Database ?
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Mar 27, 2008
For those of you who would like to reference my exact issue, I'm dealing with the RSExecution SSIS package at the "Update Parameters" data flow task, at the Script Component.
The script tries to split parameter data into name and value. Unfortunately, I have several reports that are passing parameters that are very large. One example has over 65,000 characters all in the normal "¶mname=value&parm2=value..." format.
The code in the script works fine until it gets to one of these very large parameter sets. I have figured out what is causing the issue. Here's some code:
Dim paramBlob as Byte()
paramBlob = Row.BlobColumn.GetBlobData(0, Row.BlobColumn.Length)
The second parameter of the .GetBlobData function takes an INTEGER as its count! Therefore, no matter what kind of datatype I pass to the string that the script will later split, it will be limited to 32767 characters.
THIS IS A PROBLEM!!!
Does anyone know a workaround for this issue? I need all of the parameter data to be reported, and I would hate to have to skip over rows like this. Also, if I'm missing something, please fill me in!
Thanks for your help in advance,
LOSTlover
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Feb 24, 2008
I am trying to narrow down this problem. Basically, I added 3 columns to my article table. It holds the article id, article text, author and so on. I tested my program before adding the additional field to the program. The program works fine and I can add an article, and edit the same article even though it skips over the 3 new fields in the database. It just puts nulls into those columns.So, now I have added one of the column names I added in the database to the code. I changed my businesslogic article.vb code and the addarticle.aspx, as well as the New article area in the addartivle.aspx.vb page. The form now has an additional textbox field for the ShortDesc which is a short description of the article. This is the problem now: The command parameters.length is 9 and there are 10 parameter values. Right in the middle of the 10 values is the #4 value which I inserted into the code. It says Nothing when I hover my mouse over the code after my program throws the exception in 17 below. Why is command parameters.length set to 9 instead of 10? Why isn't it reading the information for value 4 like all the other values and placing it's value there and calculating 10 instead of 9? Where are these set in the program? Sounds to me like they are hard coded in someplace and I need to change them to match everything else. 1 ' This method assigns an array of values to an array of SqlParameters.2 ' Parameters:3 ' -commandParameters - array of SqlParameters to be assigned values4 ' -array of objects holding the values to be assigned5 Private Overloads Shared Sub AssignParameterValues(ByVal commandParameters() As SqlParameter, ByVal parameterValues() As Object)6 7 Dim i As Integer8 Dim j As Integer9 10 If (commandParameters Is Nothing) AndAlso (parameterValues Is Nothing) Then11 ' Do nothing if we get no data12 Return13 End If14 15 ' We must have the same number of values as we pave parameters to put them in16 If commandParameters.Length <> parameterValues.Length Then17 Throw New ArgumentException("Parameter count does not match Parameter Value count.") 18 End If19 20 ' Value array21 j = commandParameters.Length - 122 For i = 0 To j23 ' If the current array value derives from IDbDataParameter, then assign its Value property24 If TypeOf parameterValues(i) Is IDbDataParameter Then25 Dim paramInstance As IDbDataParameter = CType(parameterValues(i), IDbDataParameter)26 If (paramInstance.Value Is Nothing) Then27 commandParameters(i).Value = DBNull.Value28 Else29 commandParameters(i).Value = paramInstance.Value30 End If31 ElseIf (parameterValues(i) Is Nothing) Then32 commandParameters(i).Value = DBNull.Value33 Else34 commandParameters(i).Value = parameterValues(i)35 End If36 Next37 End Sub ' AssignParameterValues38 39 40 41
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Jan 28, 2015
Need to know if the varchar datatype field will ingore leading zeros when compared with numeric datatype ?
create table #temp
(
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insert into #temp
[Code] .....
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Apr 24, 2008
Good afternoon,
I have an issue with an ssis variable datatype.
The scenario is as follows:
I have a stored procedure:
PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_newTransaction]
@sourceSystem varchar(50),
@txOut NUMERIC(18,0) OUTPUT
AS
insert into scn_transaction (sourceSystemName) values(@sourceSystem);
SELECT @txOut = @@identity
Whose purpose is to perform an insert into a table and return me the identity value of the inserted record, which I'll then use throughout the rest of my package. The identity column in the inserted table is numeric(18,0).
I execute the stored proc with the following sql with an OLE DB connection manager:
exec sp_newTransaction ?, ?
The first parameter is a string variable from earlier in the package, and the second is the output parameter. I have the following parameter mappings to the execute sql task:
User:ystxId output numeric 1 -1
User:ourceSys input varchar 0 -1
The proc is correctly called, and the row insesrted, however I get a type conversion error when SSIS attempts to map the return parameter to my package variable... I've tried all sorts of combonations, and can't seem to get it to execute.
At one point I wasn't returning a numeric, but rather an int from the stored proc, and all was well until I went to use the variable in a derived column later in the package, and the type was converted quite incorrectly (a 1 was 77799789080 or some such), indicating a type conversion error likely related to the encoding of the number.
I'd like to keep the datatypes as numeric and make ssis use those - any pointers are greatly appreciated as to what type my package variable should be to allow proper assignment of a sql server numeric type to it.
Thanks much,
B
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Sep 17, 2003
Database is SQL Server 2000
I have a field in a table that stores date of birth. The field's datatype is char(6) and looks like this: 091703 (mmddyy). I want to convert this value to a datetime datatype.
What is the syntax to convert char(6) to datetime?
Thank you in advance.
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Mar 14, 2008
Hi,
I imported a table from Accees to SQL 7 with data in it.
I need to modify one of the datatype columns to "datetime" from nvarchar.
I tried to convert it manually, in SQL Server Enterprise Manager tool, but it gave me an error.
I also tried, creating another column "DATE2-datatype:datetime" and updating the column with the old one.
UPDATE users SET DATE2 = DATE.. But it also faild,..
How can I modify the column?
Thank you.
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Dec 15, 2005
HI,I have a table with IDENTITY column with the datatype as INTEGER. Nowthis table record count is almost reaching its limt. that is totalrecord count is almost near to 2^31-1. It will reach the limit with inanother one or two months.In order to avoid the arithmentic overflow error 8115, we would likechange the datatype from INT to BIGINT. we hope this will solve ourproblem.How do I approch this datatype conversion?. Since the data count ishuge, that leads to a long down time of database.we need better approach or solution for this problem?. kindly give mea better solution that will reduce the total downtime of the productiondatabase.?.Regards
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Feb 25, 2008
Hi guys..
i have so doubts in my mind and that i want to discuss with you guys... Can i use more then 5/6 fields in a table with datatype of Text as u know Text can store maximu data... ? acutally i am trying to store a very long strings values into the all fields. it's just popup into my mind that might be table structer would not able to store that my amount of data when u use more then 5/6 text datatypes...
and another thing... is which one is better to use as data type "Text" or "varchar(max)"... ?
if any article to read more about these thing,, can you refere to me...
Thanks and looking forward.-MALIK
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Jun 7, 2004
How can I measure the length of a field of type text?
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Jul 20, 2005
We ran into a problem loading access where tables where if we did notselect the property allow zero length we got an error message whenloading data with some empty values.We are now ramping up SQL server and the question came up will SQLserver have the same problem with empty data values.Is there an SQL server equivalent to allow zero length?
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Oct 22, 2007
what the max length that I can run query to sql Server?example:
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Feb 6, 2008
Hi all - am in a bit of a quandry over this one!My application is all up and running - it's an despact & accounts app - I've missed one thing though - the ability to deal with half pennies (or half cents for those of you over the pond ;))
All of my tables are set up as decimal (19,2) along with all the params in my stored procs (a lot!). Is there an easy way to change all of these in 1 swoop?
Thanks in advance,
Stephen.
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