Alter Table questions - Visual Basic .NET

Darin

I have many columns in different tables set to money. I want to change
those to be decimal(18,2).

I do the following:

ALTER TABLE AROpenItem ALTER COLUMN copn_taxamt decimal(19,2)

I get an error:

The object 'DF__AROpenIte_ _copn___4D94879 B' is dependent on column
'copn_taxamt'.
BUT

I can open SQL Server Enterprise manager, go to design table, and change
that column. It displays a message:

The following tables will be saved to your database. Do you want to
continue?
ARCustomer
AROpenItem

(AROpenItem references the customer # from ARCustomer).

I click Yes, and it changes the column fine.

How can I get the column to change from an alter table command? I drop
the foreign key constraint and still receive the object error from query
analyzer, but the enterprise manager doesn't display the table message.

Any ideas?
Darin

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

Hello,

"Darin" <darin_nospam@n ospamever> schrieb:

I have many columns in different tables set to money. I want
to change those to be decimal(18,2).

I do the following:

ALTER TABLE AROpenItem ALTER COLUMN
copn_taxamt decimal(19,2)

I get an error:

The object 'DF__AROpenIte_ _copn___4D94879 B' is
dependent on column 'copn_taxamt'.

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Nov 20 '05 #2

Bernie Yaeger

Hi Darin,

I've had similar difficult sql questions answered at
microsoft.publi c.sqlserver.ser ver - some of the mvp's there are very
knowledgeable about sql. My guess is that some system sp's are at work when
you get it done inside sql server's table designer.

HTH,

Bernie

"Darin" <darin_nospam@n ospamever> wrote in message
news:eR******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P12.phx.gbl...

I have many columns in different tables set to money. I want to change
those to be decimal(18,2).

I do the following:

ALTER TABLE AROpenItem ALTER COLUMN copn_taxamt decimal(19,2)

I get an error:

The object 'DF__AROpenIte_ _copn___4D94879 B' is dependent on column
'copn_taxamt'.
BUT

I can open SQL Server Enterprise manager, go to design table, and change
that column. It displays a message:

The following tables will be saved to your database. Do you want to
continue?
ARCustomer
AROpenItem

(AROpenItem references the customer # from ARCustomer).

I click Yes, and it changes the column fine.

How can I get the column to change from an alter table command? I drop
the foreign key constraint and still receive the object error from query
analyzer, but the enterprise manager doesn't display the table message.

Any ideas?
Darin

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Darin

I didn't mean to post this question to this newsgroup. Just a whoops on
my part.
Sorry.

Darin

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